statism

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice__he way of the market. The other is by force and dictation__he way of the State.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yourself to be nice! And if that doesn't work, we are going to try to elect a new car-jacker, who we hope will tell himself not to steal our cars! ... But at least we're not like those silly utopian anarchist kooks out there who refuse to work within the system for change! Those crazy people say there should be NO car-jackers at all!

The very term __ublic utility_ _ is an absurd one. Every good is useful __o the public,_ and almost every good _ may be considered __ecessary._ Any designation of a few industries as __ublic utilities_ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?