The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly. Ayn Rand
HT: http://mikemiller.net/quotes/liberty617.html
This is perhaps the least well understood idea in what used to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Anything above and beyond the description above is a violation of liberty by the government's legal coercive force. That we no longer notice this is troubling.
HT: http://mikemiller.net/quotes/liberty617.html
This is perhaps the least well understood idea in what used to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Anything above and beyond the description above is a violation of liberty by the government's legal coercive force. That we no longer notice this is troubling.
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