"The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised — a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide." ~ Robert Higgs
"At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent." ~ Joseph Sobran
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time." ~ H.L. Mencken
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" ~ Thomas Sowell
"The whole of mankinds progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion." ~ Ludwig von Mises
"Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less." ~ Richard Cobden
"The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised — a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide." ~ Robert Higgs