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As it is certain, on the one hand, that we are all making some similar request to the Government; and as, on the other, it is proved that Government cannot satisfy one party without adding to the labor of the others, until I can obtain another definition of the word Government, I feel authorized to give my own. Who knows but it may obtain the prize?

Here it is:

https://mises.org/library/government-0

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

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