Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for… — Scott Boman Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do… — John Murray 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
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work… — David Bergland Copy Share Image
If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to… — Harry Browne 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
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
See, as a libertarian, I am actually far more liberal on the issue of immigration than many people might expect. — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know. — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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