#That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted f… - Lysander Spooner

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#That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner (19 January 1808 – 14 May 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century.

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For this reason, whoever desires liberty, should understand these vital facts, viz.:

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