The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros Copy Share Image
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
See, as a libertarian, I am actually far more liberal on the issue of immigration than many people might expect. — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do… — John Murray Copy Share Image
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me… — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional -… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
