“All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.”
— H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/H..L..Mencken.Quote.80FE
“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
— Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“[T]he State’s criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation — that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class — that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.”
— Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) American libertarian author, Georgist, The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
[Liberty Tree outdid themselves once again. 3 for 3. The proof of these 3 quotes exposing the reality of government is witnessed everyday around the world. The state of utter dysfunction cannot be denied. The unneeded misery. Its not conjecture, its observable. Yet here in America people in election years often speak of government as a “problem solver”. I immediately wonder, “What is it government ever ‘solved’?”]
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