Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that ….

The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes priva….

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

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights,….

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that ….

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you..

The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed - we….

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this i….

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 t….

It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects,….

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in Americ….

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be crim….

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery..

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boo….

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use..

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with….

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right a….

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserv….

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion..

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reduc….

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only ….