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When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.
I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
St. Kitts' government is much more libertarian compared with the U.S. It's not even close.
... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.
There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.
Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.