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“The aim of the anarchist is to eliminate private ownership.”

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Anarchy (1959)

“The family unit is the incubator for human character; the state is the incubator for human dependency.”

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“The Family”, Pine Tree Press (Nov. 1963) p. 16.

“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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

“Very few crooks perform with a police audience.”

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

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

“The nature of man is such that he tends to believe what he wants to believe. Whether it is true or not usually provides only a brief hesitation. Men believe on the basis of their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, much of what we believe to be true may be partially true. Absolute truth or absolute falsehood is rare. A total falsehood is easier to detect than a partial falsehood. Even a total truth is totally true only in context.”

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Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 19

“The single merit I can claim at this junction is that I am not seeking to obtain agreement. I am seeking only to outline the reality that exists, not to win support, start a movement, or contrive concurrence. The reason is clear. It can’t be done. Additionally I do not know everything. Therefore, I can be wrong. What evil I could impose if I obtain agreement on a point that happened to be in error! I do not intend to be wrong, but the mind and the memory are both fallible. So I propose to set down what is so, to the degree I am capable of recognizing it.”

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Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), pp. 18-19

“Hundreds if not thousands of zealots seeking ever to create universal harmony and understanding, have offered their particular theology as the truth faith. The justification has been that, once men all agree on a particular series of concepts or beliefs, they will stop imposing on one another. To date, this effort has also fallen short.”

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Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 18

“The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.”

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Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 11

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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