When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“In the view of the Kochs and other members of the Libertarian Party, government should be reduced to a skeletal function: the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I am not sure we are going to see Republican Members endorsing Hillary Clinton. I think we will see plenty say they… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“As I explain in 'What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist', to be an anarchist simply means you oppose aggression, and you… — N. Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
