One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. — Lewis Goldberg Copy Share Image
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain… — Sting Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual… — Robert Locke Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Of course the no-government ethics will meet with at least as many objections as the no-capital economics. Our minds have been so… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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