There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I… — Michael Foot 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 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
Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government. — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner 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
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
