What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government.… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi Copy Share Image
There’s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you’re doing the right thing, — Stewart Baker Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
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