Governments Have Persistently Tried Their Best To

An Atlas, Whose Back Is Bowed And Whose Hands Are Busy Holding Up The World, Has No Arms To Lift To Deal With His Own Defense. Increase His Burdens And You Will Crush Him...this Is Our Present Posture...this Suggestions I Make...would...conserve American Lives For American Ends.

All Government Operation Is Wasteful, Inefficient, And Serves The Bureaucrat Rather Than The Consumer.

All Of The Services Commonly Thought To Require The State-from The Coining Of Money To Police Protection To The Development Of Law In Defense Of The Rights Of Person And Property-can Be And Have Been Supplied Far More Efficiently And Certainly More Morally By Private Persons. The State Is In No Sense Required By The Nature Of Man; Quite The Contrary.

The Libertarian Sees The State As A Giant Gang Of Organized Criminals, Who Live Off The Theft Called "taxation" And Use The Proceeds To Kill, Enslave, And Generally Push People Around. Therefore, Any Property In The Hands Of The State Is In The Hands Of Thieves, And Should Be Liberated As Quickly As Possible. Any Person Or Group Who Liberates Such Property, Who Confiscates Or Appropriates It From The State, Is Performing A Virtuous Act And A Signal Service To The Cause Of Liberty.

I See The Liberty Of The Individual Not Only As A Great Moral Good In Itself (or, With Lord Acton, As The Highest Political Good), But Also As The Necessary Condition For The Flowering Of All The Other Goods That Mankind Cherishes: Moral Virtue, Civilization, The Arts And Sciences, Economic Prosperity.