On Breaking the Law

If I find a rule tolerable, I obey it. If I find it intolerable, I break it.

Professor Bernardo de la Paz 
  Fictional character modeled after Robert LeFevre in Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

State as a Mechanism

Government is an agency of force which can and must be employed against every deviationist. And this is only to say again that the government must oppose the individual. Therefore the "good" man in government is like a priest with a machine gun. The mechanism does the harm. The man who operates it merely pulls the trigger.

Robert LeFevre, The Nature of Man and His Government (1959)

A Question

…how does it happen that so many administrations of good men have been able to do so many evil and harmful things to their subjects?

Robert LeFevre, The Nature of Man and His Government (1959)