Voluntaryism Quotes
We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.
Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.
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.
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.
If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
