Government may be intrinsically evil; clearly they operate on the basis of tax predation. - Robert LeFevre

Formal government can be defined as: a group of men who sell retribution to the inhabitants of a limited geographic area at monopolistic prices.

I demonstrated that slavery is rationalized, under the name of government and politics, because of the belief that if we didn’t enslave others, the others would enslave us. Thus, we practice slavery on some in order that others should be free.

I carry no brief in favor of the criminal. That is why I carry no brief in defense of those in government. Setting a thief [the government] to catch a thief doubles the amount of loot stolen.