"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government……" — William Weld

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• No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against… — Ayn Rand
• Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which… — Ayn Rand
• The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very… — Friedrich August von Hayek
• We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we… — David Boaz
• Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of… — Ralph Raico
• When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State… — Roderick T. Long
• Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic… — Friedrich August von Hayek
• The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired… — John Holdren
• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human… — Errico Malatesta
• Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many… — Walter Block
• No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men,… — Leo Strauss

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