Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.” — Richard Epstein Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We can divide bitcoin people into two camps: one that goes along with the existing system and wants it to work complimentarily… — Melanie Swan Copy Share Image
Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image