Non Aggression Principle Quotes
Non Aggression Principle Quote of the day
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
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.
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.
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.
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.
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.
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".
When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
