Any government is a monopoly of organized force, inherently unjustifiable; and once
accepted, it’s bound to get out of control sooner or later.
We now have two vocabularies for wrongs, depending on whether private persons or government agents commit them. This is the difference between mass murder and national defense. Between extortion and taxation. Between counterfeiting and inflation. And so on. Other examples will occur to the astute reader.
Yet for most of my life, I believed that social order depended on government. That is,
I believed that freedom depended on force, and ultimately that a great good depended
on a great evil. I’m afraid most people believe such things, and accept armed men in
uniforms as their benefactors.
Joseph Sobran
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