“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.”

— Robert LeFevre

As quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, L.K. Samuels, editor, Freeland Press and Rampart Institute, Santa Ana: CA, Chap. 5, p. 70

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American libertarian businessman 1911–1986

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