I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence… — Murray N. Rothbard 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
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to… — Mark S. Fowler Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches… — Karl Hess 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 policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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