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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

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot — Ron Paul

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

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place? — A.E. Samaan

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle.

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious. — A.E. Samaan

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not. — 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

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

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

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

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer

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

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. — Stefan Molyneux

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 Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. — Joseph Sobran

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost. — A.E. Samaan

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp

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

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. — Harry Browne

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

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you. — Ron Paul

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 vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives. — A.E. Samaan

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

Legalize the right to choose wrong.
Legalize individual liberty. — 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

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other. — A.E. Samaan

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

Big government = oligarchy.
Simple equation.
Big government = loss of representation. — A.E. Samaan

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

The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism. — A.E. Samaan

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence. — Tom C. Clark

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

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems. — Ronald Reagan

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

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. — J.S.B. Morse

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. — John Bolton

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

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force. — Ayn Rand

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. — A.E. Samaan

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

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

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. — A.E. Samaan

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

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig Von Mises

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand

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

Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs. — Brooke Bida

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

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) — Thomas Jefferson

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. — A.E. Samaan