Robert LeFevre: Governance

Robert LeFevre was American libertarian businessman. Explore interesting quotes on governance.

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“To say “unlimited government” is a redundancy and to say 'limited government' is a contradiction. All you have to say is 'government.'”

Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 19.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

“Does government protection protect? It doesn't do anything of the sort. It takes vengeance in your name after you've been hurt and calls it protection.”

Rampart Institute (Society for Libertarian Life edition), speech from 1978, p. 30.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)

“Very few men advocate government control over themselves. But they constantly believe that others must be controlled by some outside force.”

Rampart Institute, p. 432
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)

“Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?' That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.”

Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 14.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

“What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.”

Rampart Institute (Society for Libertarian Life edition), speech from 1978, p. 14.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)

“So the thing I object to about government isn't its organizational feature. Organization has to be accomplished. It is the coercive nature of government organization. My argument is that we can organize better without coercion.”

Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 8.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

“If people are capable of committing evil deeds, then the people occupying the offices of government will be cut from the same cloth. They are evildoers, too. There is not a single shred of evidence that they will be otherwise.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume II, (1999), p. 487

“I demonstrated that slavery is rationalized, under the name of government and politics, because of the belief that if we didn’t enslave others, the others would enslave us. Thus, we practice slavery on some in order that others should be free.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume II, (1999), p. 319

“In order to convince the world to worship government, those within its presumably divine channels of rule had to create an image of superiority. Early governments did so by invoking fear and terror. This is not surprising. Early deities were ruthless, vindictive, and cruel.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 137

“All governments behave like any other instrument of war and terror. A gun doesn’t change it nature. When it is aimed at someone you fear or dislike, you will praise the importance of guns. When the gun is aimed at you, you will call for help against those who use guns.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 136

“If men are capable of committing evil actions, granting them power over others makes evil actions certain. But there is a difference. When men in government commit and evil act, they are legally shielded from their consequences of the act.”

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume II, (1999), p. 487

“Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?'”

That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.'

p. 14
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)