“...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.” — David Welch Copy Share Image
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics — Robert Sarvis Copy Share Image
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Politicized science is like a prostitute with an STD. You know she has been fucked by a dirty politician.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the… — Spruille Braden Copy Share Image
I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though. Satoshi… — Phil Champagne Copy Share Image
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
