Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno 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
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I… — Neil Peart 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
Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It's the ability of everybody to live their life and… — Kane Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz 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
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
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games".… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“In libertarianism the aim isn't judging better from best, it's making sure that there is freedom for the perpetual revolution of ideas.… — Darrin Moore Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,… — George Leef 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 purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton 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
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image