Quotes

“Voluntaryists are simply abolitionists who know the job is not over yet.” ~Michael Shanklin

“You can’t defeat statism with statism, you defeat statism with knowledge, education, rationality, and virtue.” ~Michael Shanklin

“When will statists understand that to support statism, is to support aggressive violence on me and other peaceful people?” ~Michael Shanklin

“Just as money does not grow on trees, wealth does not grow through printing presses.” ~Michael Shanklin

“They keep us fighting over how to make our cage better, I just want to get rid of the cage.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Taxation is the price we pay for living in an uncivilized society.” ~Michael Shanklin

“If government worked, we wouldn’t need to always reform everything in it.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The statist slogan should be, ‘We (statists) can’t do it with peace’.” ~Michael Shanklin

“You can NOT give a right to someone else (politicians included) that you yourself do not have.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Capitalism has NEVER existed, NEVER! Capitalism means there is private ownership, but private ownership is impossible in statism… you are simply renting the land (eminent domain, taxes, regulations on your property). Sure, you might have a nice little title, but that means nothing to the state. With the threat of the state always present in human history, private property is impossible. The very existence of the state makes capitalism impossible!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Government is not some weird creature that lives outside society and has a mind of its own… its just a collective of unethical/conditioned/stupid people.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Sex without consent is rape. Taking money without consent (taxation) is THEFT. Only criminals participate in either.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Someone asked me about the birther situation… I said, I could careless where my masters comes from… My point is that I don’t want a master at all!” ~Michael Shanklin

“The non-aggression principle IS equality.” ~Michael Shanklin

“There are two options, either you have politics or you have Freedom. I choose the latter.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Taxation is MUCH worse than theft… as taxation will use aggressive violence on your body, while theft simply deprives you of your property/labor without aggressing on your body directly.” ~Michael Shanklin

“If you don’t vote, good for you! …and you can still complain.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Let me opt out!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Without an individual right to property, the individual is trapped to the collective.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Technically no one has the right to vote in statism as we all have conflicts of interest.” ~Michael Shanklin

“When it comes to politicians there are two option. 1) They are uneducated and don’t understand the unethical backbone of statism or 2) They know it is an evil system, take advantage of it, and are corrupt.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Ron Paul IS a statist. He believes in governments which are funded through theft (taxation). He believes in government militaries, in government borders, and in states having the right to wage war on drugs and abortion. Ron Paul would have to fund this with taxation theft which is anti-free market. Ron Paul threatens to use violence on peaceful people. I am against statism slavery 100%…. I believe no one has the right to use violence on peaceful people, unlike Ron Paul…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Taxation is war. It is anti-peace.” ~Michael Shanklin

“In statism… they sell you the lie that you are the master, when really you are the slave.” ~Michael Shanklin

“One thing is for sure, most Keynesians, liberals, democrats (average democrats in day to day life) I know support statism because they care (no matter how misdirected their intentions may be) for others. That is something I cherish, and something I believe we have in common. The difference between most democratic liberals and I is that I will not point guns at peaceful people to enforce this ideal. I believe we can end poverty and suffering without pointing guns at peaceful people.” ~Michael Shanklin

“There is no such thing as “good” aggressive violence on peaceful people.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Not only am I for the separation of church and state, I’m for the separation of society and state” ~Michael Shanklin

“It isn’t owning a business or massive amounts of wealth that makes you a capitalist, but the belief in free will.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Michigan is 2nd to last in unemployment, but in the top 5 on the list for # of unions.” ~Michael Shanklin 2008

“Why do politicians lie all the time? Because they have to… the entire system itself is a lie.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Statists… the ultra-rich appreciate your support. If it wasn’t for you violent state supporters, there would be no corporate lobbying, there would be no subsidies for corporations, there would be no government protectionism for corporations. Without your statism, there would be no corporations at all, just regular, free market businesses that have to answer to consumers, instead of the governmental corporatism system of corruption. To all the statists out there, the ultra-rich who you give government guns to, thank you for your corrupt service to them, instead of virtue ethics/Freedom.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The government is not there for you, and never will be. To think it is is to ignore human nature and history.” ~Michael Shanklin

“You have the right to violence (self-defense), you do not have the right to AGGRESSIVE violence.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Peaceful people can do whatever they want to do as long as they do not infringe on others. Anybody trying to stop their peaceful actions is committing a crime… and an act of war.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Think about the fact that while you are at work today, some politicians were on vacation (again)… or at their expensive doctors (which most of us cannot afford), or oligopolizing industries against you, or focusing on going to war/bombing hundreds of thousands more innocent children so statism slavery can fight other systems of statism slavery…inefficiently), all the while, most of you can barely afford to get by…. ah, gotta love political slavery.” ~Michael Shanklin

“I “hope” all the politicians lose in the next election…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Anybody who believes that anarchists are fascists because they support free markets, doesn’t really understand what fascism is…. How can someone be a fascist for NOT wanting to control your life?!?” ~Michael Shanklin

“Government has done more damage to society than any gangster or mobster could dream of.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Let Me Opt Out!” ~Michael Shanklin

“The chief purpose of government is to perpetuate the government.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Central planning never has and never will be able to collect the information of wants and needs of individuals in society that are made possible by spontaneous order feedback mechanisms of profit and loss in a free market. Oh, don’t forget the fact that central planning requires aggressive coercion… Statism is not only inefficient, it’s unethical!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Moral men do not participate in statism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“To end the Fed, we must end statism altogether.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Government is not even the last option, it is no option at all!” ~Michael Shanklin

“‎9/11 Didn’t happen because “we” are “rich and free”. It’s because of American statism placing sanctions, militarizing, and bombing Middle Eastern countries, not to mention propping up CIA dictators. 9/11 is a result of statism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“No, “we” don’t NEED taxes, “we” don’t NEED permits, “we” don’t NEED licenses, “we” don’t NEED social security cards, “we” don’t NEED passports, “we” don’t NEED an offensive and occupational empire, “we” don’t NEED prohibition, and “we” certainly do not NEED governments.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Oxymoron: Social Contract (Only individuals, or groups that they voluntarily join, can opt in and out of contracts, not all of society).” ~Michael Shanklin

“”Workers control over production” means you are a slave to the “workers”, versus owning your own life.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Why are some people so hooked on state sovereignty, national sovereignty,… (forms of statist) sovereignty?!? How about focusing on INDIVIDUAL sovereignty?!? That is what real freedom is…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Democracy: When a mob of people are “legally” allowed to do criminal acts/infringe on other peaceful people/tell other peaceful people what to do… Democracy is a version/form of slavery.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The politician is simply a gambler. They gamble that the individuals in their regions won’t use critical thinking skills, and unfortunately they continue to hit the jackpot.” ~Michael Shanklin

“I keep having to tell my democrat friends, ‘Yes, I do see the neocon xenophobia, but libertarians aren’t neocons and libertarians aren’t racist, in fact we’re “less racist” than you! Not only do Libertarians not hate blacks, Mexicans, Indians…… but Libertarians don’t even hate rich white people!’” ~Michael Shanklin

“The political sector’s main job is to make itself look relevant…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Freedom means people can live wherever they want as long as they justly acquire the property through the peaceful market. Immigration control is violent statism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Not only is government a cult, it’s the worst cult! Government is the cult of violence.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Free trade agreements are not free trade. Do you need someone licensing you to eat ice cream “freely”?!? Do you need someone to control you for you to be free?!? Of course not, free trade agreements are simply government controlled agreements… there is nothing voluntaryism about that…” ~Michael Shanklin

“The problems we face today do not come from individual rights, but from forced collectivism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The reason poor people in this region (America) can drive cars, the reason America has more prosperity (for now) compared to most other regions, and the reason the American region has much better medicines than most other regions… the reason we have the few individual liberties we still possess, is not because of the American government, but because of the parts of the American government that never were.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Governments were created by thieves who realized how hard it was to steal justly acquired property in the free market. They made a system which would make it easier to steal from you…. and cage you, and kill you….” ~Michael Shanklin

“This whole Occupy Wall Street (instead of government, the real culprits) event IS, I repeat, IS the state socialism wave coming to America that us freedom fighters knew was coming. The last of our economic (and for that fact personal) freedoms are about to fly out the door. They are calling for more regulations, for higher taxes, growth of government, more tariffs, more unions,…. Even more of a reason for us to take VOLUNTARYIST flyers, pamphlets, books, and much more to these events to convert as many people as we can. Don’t join them, convert them!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Imagine all the careers of plunder (IRS, lobbyists, politicians, Federal Reserve, military industrial complex,…) that should be careers of production (voluntary economy). How many government employees are there again?!? As of 2008….22,461,691! That is almost 1 out of 10 people!!!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Social contract = Slavery” ~Michael Shanklin

“No, I am not an American, I am an individual. Just because a bunch of crazy people gave me a title according to where I was born does not encourage me to want a master. I claim no nation and do not want to be associated with the death and poverty of statism. I will never use violence on peaceful people, I am NOT a/an (insert nation here). Instead, I am proud to stand up for real freedom as an individual!” ~Michael Shanklin

“You’re living in la la land if you seriously believe government will change for the better… it will only get worse, no matter who you elect. The system must be abolished… not “reformed”. You can’t “reform” slavery, you must abolish it.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Halliburton is about as private as the Post Office and Amtrak. Subsidies ruin any chance at free and competitive markets. This coupled with inflated no-bid contracts indicates that these “companies” were more about government control than free market/private businesses. This is a form of economic corporatism (or as Mussolini called it, economic fascism), where government gets in bed with big business, using a company logo to divert attention from the coercive backing that funds it (the government).” ~Michael Shanklin

“Illegal immigration is civil disobedience!” ~Michael Shanklin

“Just think if there were no politics tomorrow, all the money that is spent on elections would be kept in the productive sector. Federal, state, and local governments cost/waste LOTS of resources (time, energy, and money) that could be used to build more goods and services for society. Every day that politics continues, the economy is hampered just from that one fact alone, let alone the other millions of types of interventions that have destroyed what little prosperity and freedoms we have left.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Freedom isn’t against the poor, nor is it pro-drug, nor is it anti-equality, nor is it anti-defense,……its simply anti-coercion.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Voluntary work is NOT an “authority”, as many collectivists often confuse. It is simply a trade,… labor for wages. Not only that, you are free to leave the job or free to start your own company/voluntary collective whenever. Free markets do not have an “authority” figure, no one can control your life and everyone is equal under the nonaggression principle. Freedom is the only way to eliminate violent hierarchies.” ~Michael Shanklin

“I will personally discourage abortions, but I will never use the state to form prohibitions (as I know they won’t work, and that it opens the doors of statism to every other form of tyranny).” ~Michael Shanklin

‎”You can have anarcho-communism inside anarcho-capitalism, but you can’t have anarcho-capitalism inside anarcho-communism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Don’t lower yourself to the statists level.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Ron Paul supports the Constitution which calls for taxation theft, and a post office monopoly. Ron Paul supports government borders and government militaries. Ron Paul believes state governments can have a war on drugs and “control” abortion. Ron Paul supports reform, whereas a voluntaryist wants to end statism. Ron Paul believes in government, whereas a voluntaryist supports no government as all governments are involuntary funded through taxation theft. Ron Paul’s a statist, not a voluntaryist.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Anarchy Is Choice” ~Michael Shanklin

“The republicans make up nice little names like Nanny State, while the democrats make up nice little names like Big Brother State…. I just cut to the chase and admit to the truth… that its a Slavery State.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Just because libertarians don’t own conglomerate, oligopolized media networks, just because multinational corporations don’t approach us for their lobbying interests doesn’t mean this is a disadvantage. We need to flip that logic around and realize it’s the greatest core competency towards libertarianism, Our main competitive advantage. It should be our main selling point! It means true libertarians can’t be bought!” ~Michael Shanklin

‎”For the children” = “For the political bureaucrats” ~Michael Shanklin

“Conditioning creates the slave, an open mind frees it….” ~Michael Shanklin

“The Republic has failed, and it was predestined from the start. No human should be able to use aggressive coercion on another” ~Michael Shanklin

“Govts were created to protect, to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, to end homelessness and help in natural disasters, to educate, to cure obesity,…. so its ironic they do just the opposite! Govts infringe on the peaceful, distribute money from poor to the rich, increase homelessness, stunt disaster recovery, brainwash away from facts…. oh, at least government can end obesity, its called starvation.” ~Michael Shanklin

“People worldwide: Stop being proud of governments, start disowning them!” ~Michael Shanklin

“I love it when statists say that if we had a libertarian society, things would be chaotic (meaning they at least acknowledge the fact that Freedom is not what we have lived under), then they turn around and blame everything on us (meaning they also believe that our society is or was in charge which is completely absurd). How can they even have the mindset where they believe we are AND are not in a free society?!? The truth is, statism has always ruled the earth and the problems we are facing are due to coercion as a whole, not the lack thereof. Most people would much rather watch American Idol, NCIS, sports…. than research Austrian Economics or anarcho-capitalism. There’s simply no incentive structure for people to educate themselves. What a dilemma….so the statism continues, and grows…and Freedom falsely takes the blame for the oligarchs repeated failures…. and the apathetic voters suck it up.” ~Michael Shanklin

“What did Mises regret on his death bed? Not spreading the message of Freedom more vigorously…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Statism is like alcoholism, it’s a disease.” ~Michael Shanklin

“I want to make it so the government can’t stop people from marrying, and so the government can’t force other people to accept other people’s marriages. No more benefits for married couples, no more government monopolization of marriage, no more forced acceptance of others marriages. That IS Freedom!” ~Michael Shanklin

“If we end the IRS, we save over $11 Billion a year. Oh, and more importantly, we would be discouraging THEFT” ~Michael Shanklin

“You know why governments are so against foreign terrorists?!?” ~Michael Shanklin

“Americans… don’t take the message of voluntaryism so personal! I am not just against an American government… but ALL governments. I don’t want anymore North Koreas, nor Venezuelas, nor Russias, nor Frances,…. I don’t want any nation states at all! This would abolish the government’s monopoly on protection services and open up competition to the best dispute resolution organizations. The sooner we end statism slavery, the more prosperous you and your family will be.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Never feel like other languages are bad…. be sad you can’t know all of them.” ~Michael Shanklin

“There are only two choices, Freedom or Tyranny. Either you infringe on peaceful people or you do not. Either you are a part of the solution (nonaggression principle) or you are a part of the problem (aggressive coercion).” ~Michael Shanklin

“What is the real job of a politician? It’s not to represent you, or to better society, or to bring about more peace and prosperity. No, the real job of a politician is to distract and confuse you with the false ideal that you need them…. while they rob and try to control you. Their job is to perpetuate their own jobs.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The Federal Reserve is simply another government institution… it was licensed and created by the state, gets its Treasury money from the state, is protected by the state, and its leaders are appointed by state officials. The FED is NOT “Private”…besides, your home isn’t even truly private in statism… let alone any banking system. Government entrapment of peaceful people who simply disagree IS the problem… and if you want to truly end government monopolized central banking, you must end statism 100%!” ~Michael Shanklin

“‘Whenever a statist holds up a peace sign, it makes me think of an arsonist holding up a sign that says ‘NO Fires Please’” ~Michael Shanklin

“To all the statists out there that continue to DEMAND I “shut up”… if you really want me to shut up, stop pointing guns at/trapping me and my friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers into your violent monopolies and you won’t hear much from me on this topic. If you want really don’t want to hear me talk about Freedom… stop stealing my Freedom and I won’t have anything to complain about.” ~Michael Shanklin

“There are numerous reasons to end prostitution prohibition… if you want to help decrease child trafficking (make it easier to detect), end abusive pimp relationships (turn into a regular business that doesn’t have to hide underground with criminal actors), reduce street corner prostitution (can setup appointments in a building), end the deaths of prostitutes (from their purchasers afraid of being ratted out or exposed,… or just mentally twisted)….” ~Michael Shanklin

“All I ask for is the right to peacefully disagree with you without being tackled and caged/to NOT be terrorized… that you act like an adult. Obviously, that is too much to ask from statists…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Look at all the people who buy into the two(one) party system. They really believe “their” team is good and the other team is bad….THEY’RE ALL BAD! Government is nothing but force, how do people expect it not to be corrupted? Not only that, there is no incentive for government to improve. The government can’t stop extremists, it can’t stop the immigrants, and it can’t give everyone health care. The only thing government can do well is go to war and make us poorer while oligopolizing every industry to corporate socialism.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Government debts are not your responsibility unless you were active in creating them.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Doesn’t matter what they do
Long as they don’t infringe on you” ~Michael Shanklin

“No, no statist,… I’m not “republican free market”, I support the REAL free market!” ~Michael Shanklin

“The sad thing to realize is that the ideas of Freedom, of anarchy, of rationality… they are not new. It’s not as if people today just came up with these ideas. Everyone is just repeating philosophy of the past, all of us, which means for a long time people have been ignoring the message. If only these Freedom ideals were brand new, it would make it easier to have hope…. but everything I say, and other Freedom philosophers are saying or have said, is simply proof that people are ignorant, not that great philosophers are amongst us. There is nothing special about those who see reality, only sadness because of those who don’t.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Collateral damage = Murder” ~Michael Shanklin

“You can try to call slavery “good” all you want, but it’s still slavery…
You can try to call government “good”, but…” ~Michael Shanklin

“I’m a philosophically permanent, particularly proud, passionate, property protecting, perpetual, pure and proficient peacemonger!” ~Michael Shanklin

“The statists tells me I am free to do whatever they want.” ~Michael Shanklin

“I don’t participate in politics for the same reason that I would not have owned a slave 250 years ago….’ ~Michael Shanklin

“Military members are simply pawns to statism, nothing more. They even fool you into believing that you need militaries…haha, so silly. If you are a member of the armed services, I hope you wake up to their ponzi scheme before they get you killed… Whatever you do, don’t come up to me and say “you’re welcome” like some self-righteous ass. If anything YOU need to realize you are a fool, and they are playing you…” ~Michael Shanklin

“With statism, when you are not resisting, you are enabling.” ~Michael Shanklin

“Statists, nothing you say will convince me to use violence on society.” ~Michael Shanklin

“The harder the statists push, the farther they push peaceful people away…” ~Michael Shanklin

“Our grandkids will ask us where we were while they were sold into debt slavery, while their friends were shipped off to die for bureaucrats, while millions rotted away in prison for victimless crimes. I don’t want to have to stare them in the eyes and tell them I did nothing. I have my defense prepared. I NEVER STOPPED… TRYING TO END STATISM, and I gave it more than the rest of the slaves! I will sleep well tonight.” ~Michael Shanklin

A Few Favorites

“The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.” ~Murray Rothbard

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H.L. Mencken

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. – Voltaire

‎”Parliaments are merely emblems of slavery.” ~Gandhi

‎”The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.” –H.L. Mencken

“Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.” – Murray N. Rothbard.

“The law is an opinion with a gun.” ~Stefan Molyneux

‎”If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” ~Robert LeFevre

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken

“‎”Could someone send me a copy of that social contract of which I am supposedly signatory? It seems I’ve lost mine.” ~Keith Hamburger

“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society” ~Murray Rothbard

‎”If we could only elevate social security to the status of a ponzi scheme.”
~ Stefan Molyneux

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will. –Fredric Bastiat

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – VoltaireThe politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. – Frédéric Bastiat

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle

All socialism involves slavery. – Herbert Spencer

The “private sector” of the economy is, in fact, thevoluntary sector; and…the “public sector” is, in fact, the coercive sector. – Henry Hazlitt

“All government wars are unjust.” ~Murray Rothbard

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly “reforming” their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they’re always busy “reforming” is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times. – Lawrence W. Reed

‎”Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ~Frank Zappa

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