Frases de Robert LeFevre
Robert LeFevre
Fecha de nacimiento: 13. Octubre 1911
Fecha de muerte: 13. Mayo 1986
Robert LeFevre fue un empresario, libertario de mercado estadounidense, personalidad de radio y principal teórico del autarquismo, una versión pacifista del anarcocapitalismo.[1] Wikipedia
Frases Robert LeFevre
„Politics may be defined as: the method adopted in governments for obtaining motivation toward a monopoly. In all political actions, a monopoly of control and method is sought.“
Rampart Institute, p.411
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
„The police aren't hired to protect you. They're hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That's their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they're going to make you safe? They weren't hired to make you safe.“
Rampart Institute (Society for Libertarian Life edition), speech from 1978, p. 16.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)
„The bill of grievances contained in the immortal Declaration of Independence could be extended by our own citizens in modern times, had they the stomach for it. … So important is the right and duty of the people to dispense with despotism, this great Declaration contains the sentence not once, but twice. In its final utterance, the choice of words does not call for the formation of a government. Rather, it calls for "new guards" which may or may not entail such a unit as an artificial agency.“
This Bread is Mine (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Liberty Press, (1960) pp. 363, 365. Source. http://alexpeak.com/twr/doi/
„If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.“
As quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, L.K. Samuels, editor, Freeland Press and Rampart Institute, Santa Ana: CA, Chap. 5, p. 70
„Many times when I use the term 'government', people think that I mean law and order. And so, if they hear me say: 'We don't need government', they think I mean we don't need law and order. Well, this is probably what makes me an 'autarchist' rather than an anarchist. I think we need law and order. You see, I am dedicated to the idea of lawful and orderly procedures. And because of that I have to stand against government. Because government doesn't provide either law or order.“
Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 8.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)
„If men were basically good, we would not require government; if men were basically evil, we could not afford to grant any man the power of government.“
Rampart Institute, p. 431
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
„But history shows repeatedly the madness of crowds and the irrationality of majorities. The only conceivable merit relating to majority rule lies in the fact that if we obtain monopoly decisions by this process, we will coerce fewer persons than if we permit the minority to coerce the majority. But implicit in all political voting is the necessity to coerce some so that all are controlled.“
As quoted in Bagatorials: A Book Full of Bags by John Roscoe and Ned Roscoe, Simon & Schuster, "Abstain from Beans" (1996) p. 17.
„Government may be intrinsically evil; clearly they operate on the basis of tax predation.“
Fuente: Nature of Man and His Government (1959), p. 16.
„Government doesn't cure problems. It aggravates them.“
Lift Her Up, Tenderly, Pine Tree Press (December 1, 1976) p.196
„An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.“
As quoted in "What Is Anarchy?" By Butler Shaffer, Lewrockwell.com (Jan. 13, 2004)
„Government alone, in all man’s inventions, is capable of independent life. Government alone, like Mrs. Shelley’s terrifying creation of the monster born in Frankenstein’s mind, has the power and the ability to turn upon its creators and destroy them.“
Fuente: Nature of Man and His Government (1959), p. 78
„Formal government can be defined as: a group of men who sell retribution to the inhabitants of a limited geographic area at monopolistic prices.“
Rampart Institute, p. 409.
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
„Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.“
Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)
„When the government uses "divide and conquer," it sows suspicion so that the people who would naturally tend to affiliate will distrust each other. Thus, they don't affiliate. The consequence is that everyone distrusts his neighbor. But everyone trusts the government.“
Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 23.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)
