Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.