Quotes from LeFevre

Mises Economics Blog, in a post titled A Ganster of Our Own, posts a list of quotes from Robert LeFevre’s work The Nature of Man and His Government.  Here’s just one.

“There is only one thing which causes man to look for and to organize a tool which is an instrument of compulsion and prohibition. That thing is fear. Men look to government to protect them because they fear. And virtually without exception, everything that human beings fear becomes a project for government.”

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