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“When the government uses "divide and conquer," it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other. Thus, they don't affiliate. The consequence is that everyone distrusts his neighbor. But everyone trusts the government.”

Robert LeFevre

Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 23.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

People , Nature

“And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone. This is the course of history.”

Robert LeFevre

Source: Nature of Man and His Government (1959), p. 73

History

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

Robert LeFevre

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

Men

“When we express a preference politically, we do so precisely because we intend to bind others to our will. Political voting is the legal method we have adopted and extolled for obtaining monopolies of power. Political voting is nothing more than the assumption that might makes right.”

Robert LeFevre

As quoted in Bagatorials: A Book Full of Bags by John Roscoe and Ned Roscoe, Simon & Schuster, "Abstain from Beans" (1996) p. 17.

“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.”

Robert LeFevre

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

“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.”

Robert LeFevre

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

War , Help , Nature , Fear

“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.”

Robert LeFevre

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

Making love , Evil , Men

“It is strange that many believe they cannot control themselves, but they can control others.”

Robert LeFevre

Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 21