There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals? — Mike Gunn Copy Share Image
If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people… — Justin Amash Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are… — Sieg Pedde Copy Share Image
The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image