One quote essential to my personal politics:
“Thus, the crucial question in society is not, as so many believe, whether property should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily ‘private’ owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called ‘government’; there are only people forming themselves into groups called ‘governments’ and acting in a ‘governmental’ manner… the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners. There is really only one reason for libertarians to oppose the formation of governmental property or to call for its divestment: the realization that the rulers of government are unjust and criminal owners of such property.”
- Murray Rothbard, Ethics of Liberty, 1982 (2 March 1926 - 7 Jan 1995)
