I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. — William Safire Copy Share Image
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 laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver 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
“Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and… — Benjamin A. Rogge Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am running for President because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The problems in every country are the same. Bureaucracy is strangling innovation. Overgrown political sectors are sucking away resources that could otherwise… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image