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The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else. That is the alpha and omega of my argument.

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power...

To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It's quite simple, really. It's an ethical view, so no surprise it confuses utilitarians.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

In the confrontation between the State and freedom, there can be no middle ground, no safe haven, no neutral corner, nook, or cranny.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...

The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening...

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

"My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

War is the Health of the State.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Power always thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive.

If you make peaceful change impossible... you make violent revolution inevitable.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely, sooner or later, it must occur to them to do it? And yet...

It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.

"As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government."

Where liberty is, there is my country.

"...[L]iberty is a profoundly revolutionary concept, and... it can only be achieved through the liquidation of the oppressor State."

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrongdoing which will be imposed on them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

"When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock. When you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz."

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

America’s at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

"I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power."

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."