LibertyInOurTime

"Government is essentially the negation of Liberty." ~ Ludwig von Mises

"A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion — an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and exploitation — in the form of expropriation, taxation, and regulation of private property owners." ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"Government is begotten of aggression and by aggression." ~ Herbert Spencer

"At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent." ~ Joseph Sobran

"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." ~ Murray N. Rothbard

"Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less." ~ Richard Cobden

"Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it." ~ Cecil Palmer

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