Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe… They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken… — Lewis Goldberg Copy Share Image
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If you care about other people, that's now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image