[T]he state’s power to engage in national security policy making is a “master key” because it “opens all doors including the doors that might otherwise obstruct the government’s invasion of our most cherished rights to life liberty and property.”– Christopher J. Coyne, In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (p. 39)
Christopher Coyne is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.
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