“The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
