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No government can reasonably be trusted unless it depends wholly on voluntary support

Drawn from what Lysander Spooner said

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What this subject means

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Lysander Spooner actually said

  1. Lysander Spooner American individualist anarchist and legal theorist (1808 to 1887)
    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.

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