Robert Higgs
"If
I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with
government today, I would use the word fraud. Certainly nowadays—perhaps in
every age—government is not what it claims to be (competent, protective, and
just), and it is what it claims not to be (bungling, menacing, and unjust). In
actuality, it is a vast web of deceit and humbug, and not for a good purpose,
either. Indeed, its true purposes are as reprehensible as its noble claims are
false. Its stock in trade is pretense. Yet the velvet glove of its countless
claims of benevolence scarcely conceals its iron fist of violence and threats
of more violence. It wants to be loved, but it will settle for being feared.
The one thing it will not do is simply leave us alone." -- Robert Higgs,
Against Leviathan (2004), p. xv.
"If
I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with
government today, I would use the word fraud. Certainly nowadays—perhaps in
every age—government is not what it claims to be (competent, protective, and
just), and it is what it claims not to be (bungling, menacing, and unjust). In
actuality, it is a vast web of deceit and humbug, and not for a good purpose,
either. Indeed, its true purposes are as reprehensible as its noble claims are
false. Its stock in trade is pretense. Yet the velvet glove of its countless
claims of benevolence scarcely conceals its iron fist of violence and threats
of more violence. It wants to be loved, but it will settle for being feared.
The one thing it will not do is simply leave us alone." -- Robert Higgs,
Against Leviathan (2004), p. xv.
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