Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of m…

- Sheldon Richman

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and t…

- Sheldon Richman

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlor…

- Sheldon Richman

Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have i…

- Sheldon Richman

Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have t…

- Sheldon Richman

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferre…

- Sheldon Richman

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to k…

- Sheldon Richman

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

- Sheldon Richman

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

- Sheldon Richman