Thought for the day
- Friday, October 02 2009 @ 10:02 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:
State power, no matter how well disguised by seductive words, is in the last analysis always coercive physical power…As we come to recognize that the State is the repository of coercive power, and by its nature works ceaselessly to enlarge that power, much that seems shameful and senseless in the world today becomes intelligible…