274 Quotes About Statism

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

The enemies of freedom from the left, right, and middle have one common denominator: faith in the state.

Your fathers killed their government for far less, why won’t you?

We wish to break with all aspects of the liberal State: with its welfare and its warfare, its monopoly privileges and its egalitarianism, its repression of victimless crimes whether personal or economic. Only we offer technology without technocracy, growth without pollution, liberty without chaos, law without tyranny, the defense of property rights in one’s person and in one’s material possessions.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.