Ancap Quotes

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

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

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sen...

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, ...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why no...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and ...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

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

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

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

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

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

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...