It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the… — Spruille Braden Copy Share Image
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver 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
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
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
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman 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
While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social… — Laurence Kotlikoff Copy Share Image
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix… — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
“It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“One of the founding European settlements of what would become the United States, Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, first attempted communal farming on… — Todd Seavey Copy Share Image
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and… — Philip D. Murphy Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
