“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.” — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land. — Laozi Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference.… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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