“ No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire. Lysander Spooner
“ 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… David D. Friedman
“ 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. Ron Paul
“ 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… Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“ By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil. Sheldon Richman
“ Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least. Jeffrey Tucker
“ 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… Larken Rose
“ It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. Rose Wilder Lane
“ 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. Auberon Herbert
“ 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… Albert Jay Nock
“ Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do… Ayn Rand
“ 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… Robert Higgs
“ 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. Stefan Molyneux
“ The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could pre… Hannah Arendt
“ 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… Larken Rose
“ Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments o… Auberon Herbert
“ Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. Stefan Molyneux
“ If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in hi… Lysander Spooner
