Top Statism Quotes

The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the hea...

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money qu...

Statism Definition

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to sur...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit...

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches of this world, but which, when...

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that's all society is: the collective name for lots of I...

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

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.