The State Has Typically Been A Device

An Atlas, Whose Back Is Bowed And Whose Hands Are Busy Holding Up The World, Has No Arms To Lift To Deal With His Own Defense. Increase His Burdens And You Will Crush Him...this Is Our Present Posture...this Suggestions I Make...would...conserve American Lives For American Ends.

The Individual Man, In Introspecting The Fact Of His Own Consciousness, Also Discovers The Primordial Natural Fact Of His Freedom: His Freedom To Choose, His Freedom To Use Or Not Use His Reason About Any Given Subject. In Short, The Natural Fact Of His "free Will." He Also Discovers The Natural Fact Of His Mind's Command Over His Body And Its Actions: That Is, Of His Natural Ownership Over His Self.

No One May Threaten Or Commit Violence ('aggress') Against Another Man's Person Or Property. Violence May Be Employed Only Against The Man Who Commits Such Violence; That Is, Only Defensively Against The Aggressive Violence Of Another. In Short, No Violence May Be Employed Against A Non-aggressor. Here Is The Fundamental Rule From Which Can Be Deduced The Entire Corpus Of Libertarian Theory.

The Essence And The Glory Of The Free Market Is That Individual Firms And Businesses, Competing On The Market, Provide An Ever-changing Orchestration Of Efficient And Progressive Goods And Services: Continually Improving Products And Markets, Advancing Technology, Cutting Costs, And Meeting Changing Consumer Demands As Swiftly And As Efficiently As Possible.

I Define Anarchist Society As One Where There Is No Legal Possibility For Coercive Aggression Against The Person Or Property Of Any Individual. Anarchists Oppose The State Because It Has Its Very Being In Such Aggression, Namely, The Expropriation Of Private Property Through Taxation, The Coercive Exclusion Of Other Providers Of Defense Service From Its Territory, And All Of The Other Depredations And Coercions That Are Built Upon These Twin Foci Of Invasions Of Individual Rights.