Government originated in the attempt to find a form of…

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that…

— Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle…

— Frederic Bastiat

“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For”

— Frédéric Bastiat

If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy…

— Walter Block

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

— Benedict Fitzgerald

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive…

— John Astin

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to…

— Donald Trump

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your…

— Jamie Johnson

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free…

— H. L. Mencken

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

— Khalil Gibran