Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It's the ability of everybody to live their life and… — Kane Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
“It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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