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The state, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. what is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the state that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-state, the socialist state, the redistributive state, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'welfare state.'
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The State, Of Course, Is Absolutely Indispensable

Henry Hazlitt
The state, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. what is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the state that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-state, the socialist state, the redistributive state, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'welfare state.'
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