A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. — Anonymous 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
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
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I believe in the platform of the Libertarian party, which is different from that of the other two parties and I believe… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
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