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
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real,… — Helen Keller 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
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but… — Mike Cloud Copy Share Image
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman 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
If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we… — Walter E. Williams 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
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. — Lewis Goldberg Copy Share Image
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain… — Sting Copy Share Image
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they… — Voltaire 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
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and… — Jeff Baxter 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
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless… — Gore Vidal 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
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin Copy Share Image
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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