The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it… — Frankie Sue Del Papa Copy Share Image
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Liberals may tend to be more people oriented, whereas Conservatives are more task oriented. It makes Liberals look softheaded to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“I am a convinced advocate of economic and social equality because I know that, without it, liberty, justice, human dignity, morality, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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