Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown." Murray Rothbard

"A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer." Noam Chomsky

"Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us." Ivan Illich

"I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies." Harry Browne

"Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State." Murray Rothbard

"Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?" Murray Rothbard

"ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator." Walter Lippmann

"Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice." Walter Lippmann

"It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men." Walter Lippmann

"All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary." Murray Rothbard

"Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority." Ayn Rand

"We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!" Pierre-Joseph Proudhon