The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined. — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza 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
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people… — Jeff Baxter Copy Share Image
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.” — A.E. Samaan 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
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
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its… — Anonymous 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
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work… — David Bergland Copy Share Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton 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 man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image