Accumulation Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and…

— Murray Rothbard

“The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it. Since…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and…

— Murray Rothbard

“As the state spreads it tentacles into every corner of life in the name of regulation, rationalization or economic development, people who wanted their…

— Cherian George

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties,…

— David Mamet

Going back all the way to the founding, there was a recognition that in the same way that you need the Constitution to create…

— Lina Khan

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage,…

— John Strachan

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

— Ludwig von Mises

In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to…

— Robert Nozick

“There is nothing like coming within a hairsbreadth of losing the capital to inspire our leaders to espouse their own ideals of equality.”

— Aimie K. Runyan

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will…

— John Sherman