There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a… — Frederic Bastiat 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
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to… — Mark S. Fowler Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women’s choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?”… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Before the mid-20th century, when American libertarians entangled themselves in conservative coalitions against the New Deal and Soviet Communism, "free market" thinkers… — Charles W. Johnson Copy Share Image
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
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