If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters… — Pat Buchanan 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
“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver 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
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference.… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
