Murray N. Rothbard

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Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects

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Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost

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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society

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Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government