The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton 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
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
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
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not. — Gary Johnson 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
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
“The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat… — Bertolt Brecht 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
“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
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
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women’s choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?”… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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![“Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women’s choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?” Actually, no. I replied: “The core libertarian value is nonaggression. ‘Neutrality between different conceptions of the good’ has nothing to do with…” quote by Thomas E. Woods Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e68/thomas-e-woods-jr-29802_quote_why-does-she-borowski-rail-against-other_1585783.jpg)
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