Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious:… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
