Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. — James Madison Copy Share Image
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin Copy Share Image
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. — John Anderson Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
