I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know. — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.” — Richard Epstein Copy Share Image
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do… — John Murray Copy Share Image
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs… — Ralph Nader 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
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what… — Murray Bookchin 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
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
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