It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The libertarian position I once propended now seems to me seriously inadequate, in part because it did not fully knit the humane… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of… — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law"… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no"… — Edmund A. Opitz Copy Share Image
The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on… — Raymond Kethledge Copy Share Image
The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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