Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed."… — Stephen Holmes Copy Share Image
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin". — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
