“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the… — Gerald Cohen Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix… — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins 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
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker… — Robert H. Frank 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
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning. — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
