Contrary Quote by Murray Rothbard

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over…

— C. S. Lewis

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 government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated,…

— Otto von Bismarck

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

— Benjamin Tucker

“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint…

— Murray N. Rothbard

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that…

— Aristotle

“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

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have…

— Ilkin Santak

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner