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“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
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Eric Mack on Anarchy, State, and Utopia

“The ultimate difference between Rothbard and Nozick is that Nozick thinks that those [Lockean] measures [to protect individual rights] culminate in what he calls the ‘minimal state’ whereas Rothbard maintains that any establishment of (even) a minimal state will violate those basic moral principles—and also will be deeply inconvenient.”

— Eric Mack, “Anarchy, State, and Utopia on Individualist Anarchism vs. the Minimal State

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