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Ihmiset eivät arvosta oikeuksia, vaan etuoikeuksia.

— HL Mencken



Peace is a natural effect of trade.

— Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu



Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy



The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke



Taxation is theft; Conscription is slavery; War is murder.



Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.

— Harold Lowman



Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

— F.A. Hayek



Any twelve people who can’t get themselves out of jury duty are not my peers.



The statist looks at a problem and always sees a gun as the only solution – the force of the state, the brutality of law, violence and punishment. The anarchist – the endless entrepreneur of social organization – always looks at a problem and sees an opportunity for peaceful, innovative, charitable or profitable problem-solving.

— Stefan Molyneux



Social cooperation under the division of labor is the ultimate and sole source of man's success in his struggle for survival and his endeavors to improve as much as possible the material conditions of his well-being. But as human nature is, society cannot exist if there is no provision for preventing unruly people from actions incompatible with community life.

— Ludwig von Mises