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And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. if the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. every single time.
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And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. if the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. every single time.
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