Non-aggression-principle Quotes

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

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

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

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

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

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

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...

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

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

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

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

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.

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

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

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

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating 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...

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

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

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

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

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 can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

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...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

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...