Frases de Robert LeFevre (49 citações) | Citações e frases famosas

Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)

“In brief, let us define the anarchist as a political individualist and an economic socialist. In contrast, the libertarian can be defined as an individualist, both politically and economically.”

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Anarchy (1959)

“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.”

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

“But the thing all members of governments desire to do is to rule their own people and to collect money from them. This is inherent in their natures. So the United Nations, perforce, will aid and abet the member governments in their universal desire to maintain a coercive hold over their individual subjects. Thus, the United Nations is a government of the governments, by the governments, and for the governments. And it cannot and will not restrain their governments,…”

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Fonte: Nature of Man and His Government (1959), p. 45

“Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.”

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Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, “Unlimited Government” (Dec. 29, 1961).

“The most constructive of the anarchists were, socially speaking, individualists, peaceful and harmless. The least constructive, socially speaking, were dedicated to the overthrow of force by counter force. But without exception, in the realm of economics every anarchist comes unglued.”

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Anarchy (1959)

“I carry no brief in favor of the criminal. That is why I carry no brief in defense of those in government. Setting a thief [the government] to catch a thief doubles the amount of loot stolen.”

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A Way to be Free, the Autobiography of Robert LeFevre (1999) in the “Epilogue”

“Cannibalism is actually a sort of dietetic socialism. Here is the ultimate sacrifice. A human life is taken for the purpose of maximizing the ‘public welfare.”

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Rampart Institute p. 375.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)

“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.”

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

“Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.”

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"Aggression is Wrong" essay (1963) published by Rampart College.

“If you have a government of good laws and bad men, you will have a bad government. For bad men will not be bound by good laws.”

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Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, “Unlimited Government” (Dec. 29, 1961).

“Since I favor total self-control—absolute government of the individual over himself—I believe autarchy more accurately describes, in a positive fashion, the kind of situation I consider most desirable. Some dictionaries define autarchy as a kind of tyranny or despotism, but of necessity it is limited to self-application.”

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“Autarchy Versus Anarchy”, Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter, 1965): 30–49.

“To say “unlimited government” is a redundancy and to say 'limited government' is a contradiction. All you have to say is 'government.'”

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Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 19.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)

“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.”

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

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

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

“We know that men cannot be compelled to be good. They can only be prevented from being bad—a negative condition. We know from bitter experience that men cannot be forced into doing the wise thing, for such a forcement is foolishness.”

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Fonte: Nature of Man and His Government (1959), p. 81

“Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?' That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.”

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Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 14.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)