The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
I am an economist, a liberal libertarian economist, who has never had the ambition to be a politician and who was who… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this? — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image