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

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

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

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

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

"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure."

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

"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…"

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