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is a form of association that originated in the attempt to defend and protect the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is a policeman whose only role is to protect man's rights, it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders.

The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights... it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

is a referee, not a player, and should be limited in its actions exclusively to military defense, contract enforcement, and crime prevention.

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player. Milton Friedman

is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman. Henry Ford

is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. Milton Friedman

is an art consisting of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In general, the art of government consist of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. Voltaire

is an institution established to preserve our natural rights.

Government is to preserve our natural rights

is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them.

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop' Milton Friedman

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