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A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of… — S.M. Stirling
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing… — Reinhold Niebuhr
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Unknown Author
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat… — Paul Starr
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the… — John Dewey
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern… — Karl Hess
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined. — Dick Armey
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not… — H. L. Mencken
Small government is beautiful — Carla Howell
The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate… — Harry Browne
The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity. — David D. Aitken
Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence. — David D. Aitken
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in… — Thomas Jefferson
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to… — Benjamin Franklin
There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people… — Unknown Author
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? — Unknown Author
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods… — John Dewey
... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market… — Unknown Author
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization. — Nikolai Berdyaev
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind… — Noam Chomsky
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word… — Noam Chomsky
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black

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