"A good government, no more than a bad one, has any right to live by robbery, murder, or any other crime."
— Statism

January 1, 1970

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Lysander Spooner, A Letter to Grover Cleveland, Boston: MA, Benj. R. Tucker (1886) p. 71, originally published in installments in Liberty, June 20, 1885 to May 22, 1886