Voluntaryism Quotes

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...

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

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

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...

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd suppor...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

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

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

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 ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

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

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

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...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

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...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

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...

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.

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

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.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

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...

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.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If p...

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

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...

First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” take...

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.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to de...

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

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

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

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

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls o...

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

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

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

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learn...

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.

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...

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

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.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

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 taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

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

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The go...

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

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

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

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

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...

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