The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“We have permitted cynical political reactionaries and the spokesmen of large corporations to pre-empt these basic libertarian American ideals. We have permitted… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
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