I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily… — Richard Epstein Copy Share Image
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. — John Anderson Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
“People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.” — Hany Ghoraba Copy Share Image
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image