Consent Quote by Scott Lynch

What is government but theft by consent?

— Scott Lynch

“No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.”

— Clancy Nacht

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Your government belongs in jail.”

— Steven Magee

“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are…

— Lysander Spooner

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect…

— John Maynard Keynes

“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble.”

— Mark Twain

“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.”

— Chris Priestley

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.”

— Charles Murray