It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for… — Scott Boman Copy Share Image
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
“If you care about other people, that's now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
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![“What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand…” quote by Ralph Raico](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a80/ralph-raico-39769_arrangements_what-is-the-free-market-well-the-free-ma_3135854.jpg)
![“[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't…” quote by Bob Black](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/af3/bob-black-24650_care_libertarians-don-t-denounce-what-the-sta_1854836.jpg)
