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"No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity."

— de Molinari, Gustave event 1849

From The Production of Security

Context: The Production of Security (1849). Molinari applies the logic of free trade consistently: if monopoly is harmful in bread or cloth, it is harmful in security too. The state's exclusive claim over policing and defense is a monopoly like any other — and it deserves no special exemption. Written in 1849, this sentence would not become mainstream political thought for another century and a half.

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