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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their… — Ayn Rand
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in… — Murray Rothbard
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through… — Murray Rothbard
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of… — John Maynard Keynes
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement… — P.J. O'Rourke
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P.J. O'Rourke
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous. — Samuel Adams
[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
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer… — Harry Browne
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free… — Marilyn Ferguson
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care,… — Harry Browne
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. — Harry Browne
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to… — Harry Browne
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity. — Andrew Joseph Galambos
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp

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