Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman 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
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many. — Howard W. Koch Copy Share Image
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. — Michael Dertouzos Copy Share Image
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller 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 ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image