The greatest liberator in all of human history is Moses. So let's say he's a libertarian leader without a doubt. Then there… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true,… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their… — John Ray Copy Share Image
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the… — Kane Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because… — William Wardell Copy Share Image
“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government,… — Leonard E. Read Copy Share Image
Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from… — Alexander Beresford Hope Copy Share Image
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image