Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result." Murray Rothbard

"Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at." Murray Rothbard

"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms" Thomas Jefferson

"Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without." Milton Friedman

"When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty." G. Edward Griffin

"Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market." Murray Rothbard

"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force." Milton Friedman

"Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't." Harry Browne

"[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners." Murray Rothbard

"We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern." Walter Lippmann

"We have drawn the completely wrong lesson from the collapse of the Eastern European states if we think it had anything to do with socialism. It has to do with centralization. If we in the West move toward the same kind of centralization—and we are well on our way to doing so—we will end up with the same excesses, the same ills, the same demotivation, and the same deprivation of people’s rights." Hans-Peter Dürr

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." H. L. Mencken

"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause." H. L. Mencken

"Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that ne’er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it in sunshine? In the tempest’s thrill? I cannot tell—but it the earth shall see! I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will Not rule, and also ruled I will not be!" John Henry Mackay