Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights…

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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ✨ Ayn Rand (1964). The Virtue of Selfishness, p.94, Penguin
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