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The Mises Circle: Nullification

By on August 6, 2010 in Nullification 1

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Recorded 26 July 2010 in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French, and the presentation of the 2009 George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award to Dr. Woods by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [44:53]

“One thing that our opposition understands is the word “disobey” – because that could get out of control for them. And they cannot allow the peons to get out of control with the idea that they can disobey.”

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Pay Up. Or Else.

By on October 23, 2009 in Government 0

On the nature of government, few in history have really hit the nail on the head better than the late, great Austrian, Ludwig von Mises:

The government says to the citizen, Pay taxes or my armed constables will imprison you.

A state or a government is an apparatus of coercion and compulsion. Within the territory that it controls, it prevents all agencies, except those that it expressly authorizes to do so, from resorting to violent action.

A government has the power to enforce its commands by beating people into submission or by threatening them with such action. An institution that lacks this power is never called a government.

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