Aggression Quote by Benjamin Tucker

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to…

— G. Edward Griffin

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best,…

— Lester B. Pearson

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of…

— Lord Acton

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match…

— Anthony de Jasay

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense…

— Murray Rothbard

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human…

— Blase J. Cupich