Here's how Ron Paul tends to compare to some more well-known anarchists.
"I don't like the use of force, I like voluntarism. That's what a free society is supposed to be all about." --Ron Paul
"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence." --Ron Paul
"Voluntary means no coercion. So, if you want to change people's habits, or change the world, you should do it by setting examples, and trying to persuade people to do it. You can use force only when somebody uses force against you. So, voluntary use of information and persuading people, I think, is the best way to go no matter what kind of problem you're looking at." --Ron Paul
"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual." --Murray Rothbard
“Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” --Murray Rothbard
“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.” --Lysander Spooner
“This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished." --Benjamin Tucker
"If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State." --Benjamin Tucker
"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the State." --Ron Paul
"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required for self-defense." --Ron Paul
“Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal. Libertarianism, therefore, is a theory which states that everyone should be free of violent invasion, should be free to do as he sees fit, except invade the person or property of another.” --Murray Rothbard
"For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth." --Lysander Spooner
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.” --Lysander Spooner
"Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy." --Benjamin Tucker
"By the use of force, government comes with a gun, they take money from you, and build a highway that incidentally you can use because you don't have any other choices." --Ron Paul
"Who's the government? The government created nothing. The only thing they can do is steal, and rob people with a gun, and forcibly transfer wealth from one person to another." --Ron Paul
"The government, they have nothing. Everything they get and they want to give to someone else, they have to steal it from somebody. That's called taxation. The redistribution of wealth." --Ron Paul
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.” --Murray Rothbard
“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale?" --Murray Rothbard
“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.” --Murray Rothbard
"Every activity of government, from courts to Congress, from sanitation workers to senators, from generals to attorney generals, from presidents to policemen, depends on stolen money." --Carl Watner
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.” --Lysander Spooner
"The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat." --Lysander Spooner
"Governments, by their very nature, notoriously compete with liberty--even when the stated purpose for establishing a particular government is to protect liberty." --Ron Paul
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” --Lysander Spooner
"How is it possible to sanction, under the law of equal liberty, the confiscation of a man's earnings to pay for protection which he has not sought and does not desire? And, if this is an outrage, what name shall we give to such confiscation when the victim is given, instead of bread, a stone, instead of protection, oppression? To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. But that is exactly what the State is doing." --Benjamin Tucker
"The restraints placed on our government in the Constitution by the Founders did not work." --Ron Paul
"In reality, the Constitution itself is incapable in achieving what we would like in limiting government power, no matter how well written." --Ron Paul
"The last few centuries were times when men tried to place constitutional and other limits on the State, only to find that such limits, as with all other attempts, have failed. Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check." --Murray Rothbard
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.” --Lysander Spooner
