It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games".… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“As I explain in 'What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist', to be an anarchist simply means you oppose aggression, and you… — N. Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image