Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.” — Stefan Molyneux 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 American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken… — Lewis Goldberg Copy Share Image
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation… — John F. Kennedy 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
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter… — Lysander Spooner 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
“Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual… — Robert Locke Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
