Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities. — Mike Cloud Copy Share Image
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren 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
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined. — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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