Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government." Milton Friedman

"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents." John Taylor Gatto

"This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that." John Taylor Gatto

"Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others." Thomas Sowell

"So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices." Harry Browne

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." Milton Friedman

"Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages." Aldous Huxley

"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights." Murray Rothbard

"Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily." Harry Browne

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." Henry Louis Mencken

"Columbus had no business plan when he discovered America." Andrew Stephen „Andy“ Grove

"The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others." Harry Browne

"If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place." Murray Rothbard