203 Quotes About Coercion

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

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

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.