> "If liberty is to survive, it cannot be entrusted to the state at all. The only secure foundation is the complete privatization of society: the replacement of coercive monopolies with voluntary, competitive institutions. Gustave de Molinari saw this as early as 1849, when he proposed that even security could be provided by markets. Murray Rothbard gave it systematic form in *For a New Liberty*, arguing that only anarcho-capitalism consistently applies the liberal principles of property and contract.
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> "This is not a utopia. It is the logical conclusion of liberalism’s greatest insight: that individuals, not rulers, are sovereign, and that freedom flourishes when human relations are based on consent."
–Joseph Solis-Mullen, [*Classical Liberalism: Rise, Fall, and Future of an Idea* (2026)](
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