Abandoned Quote by Ludwig von Mises

While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable…

— Liane Norman

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws…

— Sophocles

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep…

— Albert J. Nock

“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment…

— Alexander Hamilton

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

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

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or…

— Joseph Story

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey…

— Vladimir Putin

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