David Boaz

“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than…

— David Boaz

Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,…

— David Boaz

The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It…

— David Boaz

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights…

— David Boaz

“A Government is not free to do as it pleases…. The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men,…

— David Boaz

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

— David Boaz

“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more…

— David Boaz

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Thus”

— David Boaz

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a…

— David Boaz

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

— David Boaz

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

— David Boaz

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.

— David Boaz

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy,…

— David Boaz

“Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a…

— David Boaz

In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom…

— David Boaz

Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted…

— David Boaz

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes…

— David Boaz

“Yet today, all over the developed world, welfare states are on shaky ground. The tax rates necessary to sustain the massive transfer…

— David Boaz

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax…

— David Boaz

We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,…

— David Boaz

“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as…

— David Boaz

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same…

— David Boaz

We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment…

— David Boaz

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

The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -…

— David Boaz