The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this? — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“Of course the no-government ethics will meet with at least as many objections as the no-capital economics. Our minds have been so… — Pyotr Kropotkin 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
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
“The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this… — Leonard E. Read Copy Share Image
