To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill 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
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. — William O. Douglas 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
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and… — Philip D. Murphy Copy Share Image
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like… — Brandon Simpson Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black 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
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image