Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist. —Murray Rothbard
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people. —Walter Williams
As America dips its toe even further into an age of intolerance and the suppression of individual liberties and freedom of expression, it serves one well to read The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig Von Mises. —Rob Schneider
You don’t help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. —Bob Murphy
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state. —Lew Rockwell
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. —Walter Williams
How do you fight to be free if you don’t know you’re a slave. —Yeonmi Park – In an interview with Jordan Peterson she said when she fled North Korea she didn’t even know what freedom was, she only wanted to leave because there was no food to eat.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. —Milton Friedman
If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. —Tom Woods
Democratic Socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something that many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects. —F.A. Hayek