The production of security should, in the interests of the consumers of this intangible commodity, remain subject to the law of free competition. … [… - Gustave de Molinari

No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity.

The production of security should, in the interests of the consumers of this intangible commodity, remain subject to the law of free competition.

But why should there be an exception relative to security? What special reason is there that the production of security cannot be relegated to free competition? Why should it be subjected to a different principle and organized according to a different system?

No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity.

Because one fine day they took it into their heads to question and to reason, and in questioning, in reasoning, they discovered that their governors governed them no better than they, simpl[e] mortals out of communication with Providence, could have done themselves.<p>It was free inquiry that demonetized the fiction of divine right, to the point where the subjects of monarchs or of aristocracies based on divine right obey them only insofar as they think it in their own self-interest to obey them.