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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and… — Ayn Rand
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to… — Joseph Sobran
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the… — Michael Parenti
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) — Gore Vidal
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to… — L. Neil Smith
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.… — Walter Lippmann
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake… — Byron Katie
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. — Henry J. Kaiser
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,… — William Wordsworth
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a… — Sydney J. Harris
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue. — John Aubrey
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly… — Sigmund Freud
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson

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