The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion." — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
“If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and… — Jeff Baxter Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. — John Anderson Copy Share Image
“…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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