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The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
— Stefan Molyneux
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
— A.E. Samaan
The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.
— A.E. Samaan
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
— Stefan Molyneux
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
— Wayne Rogers
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
— Albert Jay Nock
Small government is beautiful
— Carla Howell
Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.
— A.E. Samaan
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
— Richard A. Epstein
Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.
— Stefan Molyneux
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
— Stefan Molyneux
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
— Leonard Bernstein
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
— Howard Stern
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
— George Santayana
What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
— Murray Rothbard
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
— Stefan Molyneux
Statism ends with an eye roll.
— Stefan Molyneux
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
— H.L. Mencken
Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.
— David D. Aitken
Politicians need human misery ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
— L. Neil Smith
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.
— A.E. Samaan
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
— Richard A. Epstein
Statism is an unnatural disaster.
— Stefan Molyneux
History is the same story with different costumes.
— Stefan Molyneux
We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
— Jeffrey Tucker
Art should be for sale. The artist should not.
— A.E. Samaan
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
— Milton Friedman
The law is an opinion with a gun.
— Stefan Molyneux
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
— Lysander Spooner
Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.
— A.E. Samaan
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
— Stephen Harper
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
— Benjamin Franklin
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
— Jack Abramoff
There's never been a good government.
— Emma Goldman
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
— Gustave De Molinari
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
— Rupert Murdoch
Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.
— A.E. Samaan
The era of resisting big government is never over.
— Paul Gigot
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.
— J.S.B. Morse
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
— Richard A. Epstein
Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.
— Isabel Paterson
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
— John Bolton
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
— Charles Kennedy
The era of big government is over.
— William J. Clinton
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
— Isabel Paterson
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
I am a limited-government libertarian.
— Milton Friedman
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.
— J.S.B. Morse
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
— Stefan Molyneux
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
— Rose Wilder Lane
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
— A.E. Samaan
We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
— Millicent Fenwick
Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
— A.E. Samaan
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
— A.E. Samaan
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
— Ayn Rand
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
— Ludwig Von Mises