Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality – to think, to work and to keep the results – which means: the right of property.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.