If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of… — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law"… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The libertarian position I once propended now seems to me seriously inadequate, in part because it did not fully knit the humane… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost.… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me;… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an independent loner, that staying in a group's good graces is not always my first priority. I'm not a… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed."… — Stephen Holmes Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
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