Libertarian Jackass

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Friday, September 05, 2003

The State = "some obscure clerk, hidden in the recesses of a Government bureau"?

From Sumner's What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1903): "Hence "the State," instead of offering resources of wisdom, right reason, and pure moral sense beyond what the average of us possess, generally offers much less of all those things. Furthermore, it often turns out in practice that "the State" is not even the known and accredited servants of the State, but, as has been well said, is only some obscure clerk, hidden in the recesses of a Government bureau, into whose power the chance has fallen for the moment to pull one of the stops which control the Government."

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