The big difference between big government and big business is big government can take you to jail, or shoot you if you don’t comply. —Thomas Massie
Personally, I’m very pro-life, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to take money through force and coercion to fund things that are against people’s conscience whether they’re pro-life or pro-choice. —Shane Hazel
If an employer has an opening that pays $50,000 in salary, and the Christian applicant will bring in $51,000 in extra revenue to the firm while the Muslim applicant will bring in $55,000, then to discriminate against the creed of the latter will cost the employer $4,000 in potential profits. Discrimination is automatically “fined” in the free market. — Bob Murphy
Censorship is really about the state being afraid of the ideas of liberty; they’re afraid that it might catch on and that they will lose all control. —Johnny Adams
The worship of the state is the worship of force. —Ludwig von Mises
The prohibition and control of narcotics have only led to even more detrimental consequences than before the state’s involvement. —Derek Wills
…to argue that a tax-collecting government can legitimately protect its citizens against aggression is to contradict oneself, since such an entity starts off the entire process by doing the very opposite of protecting those under its control. —Walter Block
Every man who puts money into the hands of a “government,” puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will. —Lysander Spooner
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The robber does not pretend to be anything but a robber. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you.
He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. —Lysander Spooner