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"A state is an organized political community, occupying a territory, and possessing internal and external sovereignty, that enforces a monopoly on the use of force. ..." |
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Atlas Shrugged and the Corporate State, by Sheldon Richman, 12 Oct 2007
Explains how Ayn Ran's Atlas Shrugged properly depicted some businessmen as privilege seekers
"... liberty is threatened by business owners who seek privileges from the state in order to gain protection from open competition ... Those privileges ... encourage others to seek countervailing privileges. If businesses are protecting their market positions with protectionist licensing, taxes, regulations, subsidies, trade restrictions, patents, and the like, why shouldn't labor and other interest groups also seek protection?" |
If the State Falls, Does Society Crumble?, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 25 Jan 2007
Related Topic: Iraq
"The state is the only entity that is permitted to maintain a legal monopoly on the use of aggressive force. It therefore operates according to its own law. If you steal or kill, you get in trouble. The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure, and there is no higher law to keep it in check." |
Impeach the American People!, by Butler Shaffer, 17 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Founding Fathers
"To most people, government may have been established by contract but, once created, the state became a free agent, able to extend its decision-making authority in any direction it chose ... The obligation of 'the people' to insist upon its rulers abiding by the terms of the 'agreement,' dissolved into the duty to be obedient to whatever state authorities mandated." |
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The Anatomy of the State, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1974
Related Topics: Bill of Rights, Albert Jay Nock, Franz Oppenheimer, Property, War
"Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion." |
The Control Cult, by Butler Shaffer, 21 Apr 2007
"Members of the control cult have always found themselves attracted to the agency whose raison d'etre is to subdue all of humanity to its coercive mechanisms of control: the state. What problem, or catastrophe, or even fear thereof, is not met with the aforesaid chant of bureaucrats: 'we will find out what went wrong and fix it, so it doesn't happen again'?" |
The Criminality of the State, by Albert Jay Nock, The American Mercury, 1939
"... the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal." |
The Servile State Revisited, by Joseph Sobran, The Wanderer, 5 Jun 2003
Related Topics: Democracy, Military Industrial Complex
"The parasites know they depend on the State; but many of the productive people who create the wealth that supports the parasites are also convinced that their freedom depends on the State. The bureaucratic State has blurred the lines, disguising the opposition of interests. It rules by confusion." |
The Six Faces of the Terrorist; The One Face of Bureaucracy , by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 18 Aug 2006
"So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it. Well, it's time we start imagining, because the result of the security state will be more insecurity, more costs on the rest of us ..." |
Why I Am An Anarchist, by Caleb Johnson, The New Hampshire Free Press, 12 Mar 2008
Related Topic: War
Contrasts the general public view of anarchism with the reality of national governments and their actions
"... what distinguishes these forms of government from the state is that the state is not voluntary. The state is really a very specific type of government. It is an authoritarian model of government that enforces its rule over anyone that it considers to be within its jurisdiction, regardless of whether or not they have consented to its rule." |
Alternative Medicine Is Libertarian Medicine, by Butler Shaffer, 2 Dec 2006
Related Topics: Health Care, Life
"Like the headless chicken, the state is brain-dead. Its power derives from inertia (i.e., the unwillingness of a well-conditioned populace to consider alternative systems) rather than from intelligent conviction. There is nothing coming from within its halls that would engage the mind of any thoughtful human being." |
Are the Salad Days for Somalia Over?, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 8 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Somalia
"... consider what a state does. First, it taxes, which means taking from the people and giving to the government, which then gives money to its friends. Second, it regulates ... Third, it creates a central bank to water down the value of money. Fourth, it builds jails to put people who disobey, including political enemies." |
Begrudging Another Battle of Ballot-Boxing, by Kenneth R. Gregg, 23 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Politics, Libertarian Party, Taxation, Voting
"It being discovered long ago that so long as the proportion of the populace which holds the state in favor increases, the fewer resources a state needs to use in order to keep the rest under control. That is, the greater legitimacy a state has, the less it needs to use violence against any single person or faction." |
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Part 2, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Sep 2007
Related Topics: Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
Biographical essay on Benjamin Tucker from the first issue of Liberty until his death
"As a strategy, Tucker stressed psychological rather than physical disobedience; he urged people to withdraw the consent upon which the authority of the state rested. The concept of the state with its illusion of legitimacy was what commanded respect and obedience from people. He wrote, 'The state is a principle, a philosophical error in social existence.' Correcting the error required education in its many manifestations." |
Does the Market Commodify Everything?, by Thomas Woods, Mises.org Daily Article, 18 Sep 2006
Related Topics: Prices
"With the state ... the price is whatever the state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them. ... Precisely because it acts outside of the market, the state can devise arbitrary prices for its services, make those prices vary across different classes of people, and then threaten physical force against anyone refusing to pay them." |
Libertarians of Will, Intellect, and Action, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1977
Related Topics: Libertarianism, American Revolutionary War, United States Declaration of Independence, Libertarian Party, Thomas Paine
Keynote address to the Libertarian Party Convention
"In fact, it is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind. And who is the state? It is any group who manages to seize control of the state's coercive machinery of theft and privilege." |
Political Power and the Rule of Law, by Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk, 5 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Politics, Rule of Law
"Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people." |
Preventing Opposition to War, by Sheldon Richman, 13 Apr 2007
Related Topics: War
"... in its primary role the welfare-warfare state is a grand scheme to enable a ruling class, through its complex bureaucracy and ideological smokescreens, to transfer wealth from the industrious classes to itself. This system deceives and compels the taxpaying producers to support a tax-consuming aristocracy, which includes the bureaucracy and corporations that exist on government contracts." |
Ron Paul and the Empire, by Steven LaTulippe, 31 Jul 2007
Related Topics: Ron Paul
Describes steps the establishment could take to prevent Ron Paul from becoming President
"America is actually a carefully concealed oligarchy. A few thousand people, mostly in government, finance, and the military-industrial complex, run this country for their own purposes. By manipulating the two-party system, influencing the mainstream media, and controlling the flow of campaign finance money, this oligarchy works to secure the nomination of its preferred candidates ..." |
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Libertarian Forum, 1 Jan 1970
Related Topics: Communism, Achievement, Economists, Private Property, Spain
"... anarcho-communists oppose the State ... because they wrongly believe that it is the creator and protector of private property, and therefore that the only route toward abolition of property is by destruction of the State apparatus. They totally fail to realize that the State has always been the great enemy and invader of the rights of private property." |
The Idea of a Private Law Society, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Mises.org Daily Article, 28 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Private Property, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Democracy, Government, Law, Taxation
"... the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision-making. ... it is the ultimate arbiter in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself, and it allows no appeal above and beyond itself. Furthermore ... it is an agency that unilaterally fixes the price private citizens must pay for its provision of law and order." |
The War the Government Cannot Win, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 1 May 2007
Related Topics: Terrorism, Iraq, Iraq War (2003), Socialism, United States
Discusses how government cannnot win the war on terror because economic law is more powerful than the state
"We all need to begin to say no to the state on an intellectual level. When you are asked what you would like the government to do for you, we need to be prepared to reply: nothing. We should not ask it to save our children, nor provide security, nor vanquish all evil, nor give us anything at all. ... Nothing the government does takes place without a greater cost than benefit to society." |
Thinking about Foreign Policy, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Dec 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Taxation
"The people do not make foreign policy. The state does; or, more precisely, the ruling elite, which includes influential corporate interests outside the formal organization of the state, makes foreign policy. ... In foreign matters the state has the greatest leeway and privacy to do what it wants." |
Why Limited Representative Government Fails, by Michael S. Rozeff, 17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Government, Limited Government, Voting
Presents a four-element theory of why limited representative government fails
"I regard government (including limited representative government) as an ersatz self-government. It is a substitute and a makeshift, a counterfeit like its fiat money. ... The success of the State owes to many factors, one of which is the State's ability to imitate self-government. Even to distinguish government from self-government and present them as opposites in their essentials is made difficult because of the trappings of self-government that the State employs." |
Why the Republicans Are Doomed, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 21 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Republican Party, Liberty
"... the law these days is not the law written on our hearts but rather the rules as laid down by state masters. But this seemingly important point is completely lost on the Republican mind, since they believe that without the state as lawmaker, all of society and all of the world would collapse into a muddle of chaos and darkness." |
Without the State, No Troops to Support, by Jeremy Weiland, 6 Mar 2007
Related Topics: War
"The reality is that people are wrongly dying because of the State, people have always wrongly died to preserve the State, and they will continue to die until we, the people, start saying 'no'. We cannot count on establishment types to say 'no'; until people are finally unwilling to believe in fairy tales, storytellers are easily replaced." |
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A Viper Lived in Johnny's House, or A Child's First Verse in Political Philosophy, by Robert Higgs, 9 Oct 2006
"'Listen, boy, it's not wise to wonder.
From the earliest days of mankind,
everyone's had a viper or another
sort of snake: people say they're divine.'
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At home, they surrendered a great deal
of their food for the snake to consume." |
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Anarchy, State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick, 1974
1975 National Book Award |
- ISBN 0465002706: Paperback, Basic Books, 1974
- ISBN 0465051006: Paperback, Basic Books, Revised edition, 2007
- ISBN 0465097200: Paperback, Basic Books, 1977
- ISBN 063119780X: Paperback, Blackwell Publishing, New edition, 2001
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Bargaining With the State
by Richard A. Epstein, 1993 |
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Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
by James Bovard, 1999 |
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Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
by Ludwig von Mises, 1940
Excerpt from Nationalökonomie |
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Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children
by David Harsanyi, 2007 |
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Our Enemy, the State, by Albert Jay Nock, 1935
Electronic text available at "Barefoot's World" |
- ISBN 0786100877: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0405004311: Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub, 1972
- ISBN 0930073118: Hardcover, Fox & Wilkes
, 1994
- ISBN 0873190238: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Reprint edition, 1983
- ISBN 0873190513: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Expanded edition, 2001
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Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State
by Sheldon Richman, Ron Paul (Foreword), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 2001 |
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The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically, by Franz Oppenheimer, 1908
Electronic text available at the German "Franz Oppenheimer Homepage" |
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The State Against Blacks
by Walter E. Williams, 1982 |
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