If it is not proper for a neighbor to tax or pass laws regulating your private life, then it cannot be proper for the state to do so. Only by elevating itself above the standards of personal morality can the state make these claims on your life. . . . Conservatives and liberals demand different varieties of law and order without regard to the fact that the ultimate in order may be found in a concentration camp. This is their fundamental disagreement with libertarianism. It is contrary to the intellect, which cannot be improved but by conviction and persuasion.
Violence corrupts the man who employs it and the man upon whom it is employed. . . .
The battle against statism today is not a battle against any particular politician. The issue is deeper. It is a battle against a way of thinking, a way of viewing the state. The main victory of the state has been within the minds of the people who obey. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what those words mean.