“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.”

—  Robert LeFevre

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

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