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
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they… — Daniel Kammen Copy Share Image
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government,… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost.… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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