"The greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state."

"In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere."

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industr…"

"Anarcho-libertarians denounced any form of statism, treated much of the history of the American republic—from the san…"

"Statism is a pathology of human thought and behavior that causes people to passively and obediently lie on the ground…"

"And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue onl…"

"There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is th…"

"Most of the governments of the world today are, as they have been throughout history, of a totalitarian (statist) var…"

"…the State is in essence the result of the successes achieved by a band of brigands who superimpose themselves on sma…"

"The state — or, to make the matter more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.…"