“If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in...”

“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and...”

“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers t...”

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

“Go into the London Stock Exchange a more respectable place than many a court and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and C...”

“It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankinds history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big pictur...”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens tax livestock labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not on...”

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So its not that you are anti-gun. Youll need the polices guns to take away other peoples...”

“Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. Its not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly...”