The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. (Jeffrey Tucker)

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

Jeffrey Tucker

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