Top Ancap Quotes

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state whi...

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within w...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are...

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. Th...

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

It's amazing the amount of anger, hostility and hatred some people show towards those of us who want to leave them in freedom. Hysterically, some statists characterize that as the voluntaryists trying...

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining that a particular statist is never going to "get it." I often respond by saying that that's r...