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The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Henry Hazlitt
Order, Law, Justice
Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.