The State Is A Gang Of Thieves

Governments Have Persistently Tried Their Best To Promote, Encourage, And Expand The Circulation Of Bank And Government Paper, And To Discourage The People's Use Of Gold Itself.

The Great Non Sequitur Committed By Defenders Of The State, Is To Leap From The Necessity Of Society To The Necessity Of The State.

The Costs Of Government Are Bound To Be Much Higher Than Those Of The Free Market. . .the State Cannot Calculate Well And Therefore Cannot Gauge Its Costs Accurately.

It Is Curious That People Tend To Regard Government As A Quasi-divine, Selfless, Santa Claus Organization. Government Was Constructed Neither For Ability Nor For The Exercise Of Loving Care; Government Was Built For The Use Of Force And For Necessarily Demagogic Appeals For Votes. If Individuals Do Not Know Their Own Interests In Many Cases, They Are Free To Turn To Private Experts For Guidance. It Is Absurd To Say That They Will Be Served Better By A Coercive, Demagogic Apparatus.

Scratch An Egalitarian, And You Will Inevitably Find A Statist.