The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government. — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. — P. J. O'Rourke 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
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue… — Robert Slade Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do. — Stephen Holmes Copy Share Image
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image