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We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
- — Max Stirner
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice...
- — Frédéric Bastiat
The more freedom, the less violence. Conversely, the more power at the center, the more violence. In short: power kills.
- — R.J. Rummel
How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I say that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- — H.D. Thoreau
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy," and the other, "tyranny."
- — Karl Popper
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- — H.L. Mencken
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.
- — Robert Nozick
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
- — Demosthenes
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