The Police State

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Bryan Caplan

Decades before the socialists gained power, Eugen Richter saw the writing on the wall. The great tragedy of the 20th century is that the world had to learn about totalitarian socialism from bitter experience, instead of Richter's inspired novel. Many failed to see the truth until the Berlin Wall went up. By then, alas, it was too late.

Jarret B. Wollstein

If a person has a right to his own life, liberty, and property, nothing can justify forcing him to subsidize another person for any purpose, including for the purpose of police protection.

Étienne de la Boétie

I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

Harry Elmer Barnes

In this country today, and it is also true of most other nations, many professional historians gladly falsify history quite voluntarily.

Jeff Riggenbach

The state benefits from the shortage of information that the speed of events imposes on people."

Jarret B. Wollstein

The belief that government is necessary to ensure social order is a pure superstition, based upon a psycho-epistemological process different in no important respect from the belief in goblins and witches....

Jarret B. Wollstein

Limited government is inherently immoral and must be rejected by any advocate of human freedom and justice in favor of competing agencies of retaliatory force.

Christopher Westley

The total state claims the right to see you naked. A freer people would demand an end to such nonsense and the policies that perpetuate it.

William Sievert

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

Hans F. Sennholz

All the oratory of the advocates of government omnipotence cannot annul the fact that there is but one system that makes for durable peace: a free market economy. Government control leads to economic nationalism and thus results in conflict.