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Antiwar Radio an interactive libertarian anarchist talk program
Cop Block Police Accountability Report holding the police accountable
Complete Liberty property rights and individual sovereignty fostering endless prosperity
Declare Your Independence! strives to create an understanding of the philosophy of liberty
Freedomain Radio the largest philosophy conversation in the world
Free Talk Live talk radio you control
Lew Rockwell covering the U.S. gov.’s economic depredations, police state enactments & wars of aggression
Liberty Conspiracy we believe in the invisible hand and the broken window
Liberty Evolution Evolve with us for the future of freedom!
No State Project bringing about a Voluntary Society one visitor at a time
Porc Therapy relationship advise from a liberty perspective
Prometheus Unchained LGBT talk radio
School Sucks Project the end of public education
Thinking Liberty an interactive libertarian anarchist talk program
Voice of Radical Dissent dedicated to revolutionary solutions for state caused problems!
Wheels Off Liberty if these two chuckleheads can understand liberty then you should too!

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• A Definition of Freedom by Robert LeFevre
• A Future of Liberty by Lew Rockwell
• A Libertarian Analysis of Law by Walter Block
• A Libertarian Gallop Through American History by Tom Woods
• A Renegade History of the United States by Jeffrey Riggenbach
• A World Without Theft by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• About Socialism and Socialists by Frank Chodorov
• Anarchism by Robert Anton Wilson
• An Informal Talk on Anarchism by Rodrick Long
• Anarchism: What it Really Stands For & Part II by Emma Goldman
• Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin
• Austrian Economics by Friedrich Hayek
• Complete Liberty: The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America by Wes Bertrand
• The Dishonest Cop by Walter Block
• Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux
• FAQ on the Economics of the Stateless Society by Robert Murphy
• “Human Rights” as Property Rights by Murray Rothbard
• Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman
• Natural Law and Natural Rights by Murray Rothbard
• Natural Law and Reason by Murray Rothbard
• New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III
• No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
• Police, Law, and the Courts by Murray Rothbard
• Prisons: A Social Crime And Failure by Emma Goldman
• Self-Defense by Murray Rothbard
• The Market For Liberty by Morris and Linda Tannehill
• The Tragedy Of Woman’s Emancipation by Emma Goldman
• Woman Suffrage by Emma Goldman

Agora I/O
Agora I/O connects you live with the most exciting and innovative doers in the liberty community in an online setting with audio, video and text communication tools. Participation is maxed out because there’s no charge to join in the conversation. No traveling, no hotel rooms, no conference fees, no hassle. Just space to learn the latest tactics for advancing complete liberty. That means critical mass for conversations that advance the agora.

Foundation for Economic Education
This summer, we invite you to take part in the battle of ideas. Our distinguished faculty and liberty-loving colleagues create an environment that is both challenging and enlightening, providing what is consistently regarded as a memorable, life-changing seminar. So find a seminar that is right for you and come study with us!

Foundation for Teaching Economics
The goal of the Economics for Leaders program is to give promising students the skills to be more effective leaders and to teach them how to employ economic analysis when considering difficult public policy choices. Given the existing challenges confronting our nation and, assuming that problems in years to come will be equally consequential, the job of preparing the next generation of leaders may be one of the most important actions we can take now to ensure our well being in the future. The Foundation for Teaching Economics is committed to finding and nurturing those budding leaders.

Deadline: late spring for summer seminars
For: high school students & educators
Location: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Hillsdale, MI; Ithaca, NH; Lawrence, KS; Los Angeles, CA; Nashville, TN; Santa Barbara, CA; Seattle, WA; Williamsburg, VA; Wooster, OH
http://fte.org
http://fte.org/student-programs/economics-for-leaders-program

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Free State Project
The Free State Project is an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property.
http://freestateproject.org

Liberty Forum
Liberty Forum is the annual scholarly conference of the Free State Project. Now in its 5th year, it has developed a reputation for drawing together people of diverse backgrounds from across the Northeast and beyond, for the purpose of discussing strategies to reduce government interference in our lives and build a better society through business, the arts, volunteer work, etc.

Deadline: early winter for early-bird or at-the-door, held February or March
For: lovers of liberty
Location: Nashua, NH

http://freestateproject.org/libertyforum

Porcupine Freedom Festival
Whether you’re already a Free State Project participant, simply considering it, or want to have a good time with fellow pro-liberty activists, PorcFest is the place to be this summer! This week long event is intended to showcase New Hampshire and the Free State Project community in a relaxed, social, and fun atmosphere.
Deadline: late spring for early-bird or at-the-door, held third week of June
For: lovers of liberty
Location: Lancaster, NH

http://porcfest.com

Independent Institute
Few students have the opportunity to learn the basic ethical and economic principles of open markets and free societies. Yet these principles are essential for understanding, appreciating, and preparing them for the world they will soon enter. The Challenge of Liberty summer seminars help high-school and college students better understand real-world issues they will encounter throughout life.

Institute for Humane Studies
IHS Summer Seminars provide an opportunity to learn about classical liberal ideas, such as individual rights and free markets, and apply these ideas to topics in history, economics, philosophy, law, and other disciplines. Choose from 12 weeklong, interdisciplinary seminars that vary according to topic, complexity, career path, and academic interest.

Institute for Liberal Studies
Institute for Liberal Studies seminars focus on themes such as the relationship between economics and government, environmental policy and social policy. Many of our one-day seminars are held on university campuses, while the Liberty Summer Seminar is held over two-days at Hillside Estates in Orono, Ontario. Campus seminars are generally offered at no-cost to students, and the LSS is run on a cost-recovery basis with a discounted rate offered to students. We will consider waiving the attendance fee for students who find the cost of attending prohibitive.

Ludwig von Mises Institute
Classes have an economics focus, but cover history, philosophy, law, politics, literature, and more. Classes include forums, readings, video and audio, study questions, quizzes, forums, chats, live interaction with the professor, office hours, grading, transcripts, and more (tests and grading are optional). Students enjoy access to blogs and class-specific forums, providing opportunities to get to know fellow students. Papers can be uploaded, corrected and commented upon. Students have permanent access to their records.

Students For Liberty

• To permit is to control. - Unknown
• Give peace a chance. - John Lennon
• Live and let live. - Friedrich von Schiller
• Answer fools with silence. - Iranian Proverb
• All socialism involves slavery. - Herbert Spencer
• War is the health of the State. - Randolph Bourne
• The more laws the more offenders. - Thomas Fuller
• You can only be free if I am free. – Clarence Darrow
• Liberty is always unfinished business. - Anonymous
• A caged canary is safe but not free. - Walter Williams
• It is not charity if it’s at the point of a gun. - Unknown
• Truth is not determined by majority vote. - Doug Gwyn
• To change masters is not to be free. – Jose Marti y Perez
• An armed society is a polite society. - Robert A. Heinlein
• There is no more country – everyone go home. - Bracken
• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. - Seneca
• There’s never been a good government. - Emma Goldman
• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
• If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
• Everything government touches turns to crap. - Ringo Starr
• Force always attracts men of low morality. - Albert Einstein
• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson
• The plans differ; the planners are all alike. - Frederic Bastiat
• The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits. - Anonymous
• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. - James Bovard
• When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will. - Fredric Bastiat
• Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. - N. F. Simpson
• There can be no freedom without freedom to fail. - Eric Hoffer
• The era of resisting big government is never over. - Paul Gigot
• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zedong
• Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves. – Richard Cobden
• War is just one more big government program. – Joseph Sobran
• When the rich make war it’s the poor that die. - Jean-Paul Sartre
• The desire to rule is the mother of heresies. - St. John Chrysostom
• Let him who would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates
• My freedom is more important than your great idea. - Anonymous
• The greatest productive force is human selfishness. - Robert Heinlein
• A limited government is a contradiction in terms. - Robert LeFevre
• Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. - Robert A. Heinlein
• No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw J. Lec
• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. – Oscar Wilde
• Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy. - Ron Paul
• Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. - The Wizard of Oz
• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. - Johann von Schiller
• The supply of government exceeds the demand. - Lewis H. Lapham II
• Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene
• Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees. - Emiliano Zapata
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire
• Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims. - Donald Boudreaux
• It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. - Democritus
• I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. - Confucius
• When only the police have guns, it’s called a police state. - Anonymous
• Work harder, millions on welfare on depending upon you. - Anonymous
• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. - Sallust
• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling
• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
• War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. - George Orwell
• Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. - Albanian Proverb
• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. - Jean Jacques Rosseau
• Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles. - Gerry Spence
• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow
• The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. - John Hay
• Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. – Robert LeFevre
• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.- Henry David Thoreau
• Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions. - Joseph Labadie
• What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
• Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics. - Albert Camus
• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler
• There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
• You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Morley
• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
• The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. – George Orwell
• Letting lawyers make laws is like letting doctors make diseases. - Anonymous
• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
• A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
• Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. - Gandhi
• The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. - James Madison
• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H. L. Mencken
• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin
• The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. – Thucydides
• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. - Max Stirner
• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mohandas Gandhi
• Why doesn’t everybody just leave everybody else the hell alone? - Jimmy Durante
• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. - Mohandas Gandhi
• The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. - Ayn Rand
• Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan proverb
• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. - Albert Einstein
• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolosty
• Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. - Mortimer Adler
• The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. - Louis Brandeis
• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
• Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me. - M.E. Lazarus
• Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. - Milton Friedman
• The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. - Harry Browne
• There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. – Mark Twain
• I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
• A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Granville Hicks
• All wars are fought over one premise; my god is better than yours. – Mike Wasdin
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle
• Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance. - Everett Dean Martin
• Politics is a clash of interests masquerading as a clash of principles. - Anonymous
• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. – Alexander Berkman
• The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose. - Frederick Douglass
• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. - William O. Douglas
• Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. - Chinese proverb
• In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. - Lawrence Summers
• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell
• A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. - Ludwig von Mises
• The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. - Mark Skousen
• It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something. – John Wayne
• We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. - Rudolph Rummel
• You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest. – Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
• The government is not your daddy. The government is not your mommy. - Anonymous
• An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do. - Robert LeFevre
• Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. - Juvenal
• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse-Tung
• I’d rather live free with some peril than be a protected slave of government. - Dave Duffy
• I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own. – Billie Holiday
• No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. - Hermann Keyserling
• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. - Heinrich Heine
• There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison
• I have always thanked all my enemies profusely for expanding my horizons. - Unknown
• When the fox administers justice, the chickens will always be found guilty. – Cat Farmer
• I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
• You don’t need a degree in political science to know what freedom is. - Andrew Wiegand
• To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. - George Mason
• Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. - Dick Feagler
• How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. - Adolf Hitler
• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – they are the pillars of society. - Henrik Ibsen
• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Goethe
• When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. - Ron Paul
• The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. - Alan Ashley-Pit
• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H.L. Mencken
• During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. - John Dryden
• If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. - Karl Marx
• Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. - Mary McCarthy
• There is only one success – To be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
• I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
• When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans Hughes
• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H.L. Mencken
• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. - Mohandas Gandhi
• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. - Mark Twain
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
• Governments need armies to protect them from their enslaved and oppressed subjects. – Tolstoy
• The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. - Benjamin Tucker
• The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes. - Thomas Paine
• If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. – Thomas Jefferson
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau
• If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. - Jacob Hornberger
• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. - Frank Chodorov
• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. – Walter Lippmann
• Expecting the government to fight the deficit is like expecting the Mafia to fight crime. - Anonymous
• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. - Walter Lippmann
• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. - Guy de Maupassant
• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. - John Stuart Mill
• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
• There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. - Matilda Joslyn Gage
• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. - John F. Kennedy
• We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don’t know. - W. H. Auden
• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. - Frank Chodorov
• Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. - Henri Frederic Amiel
• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. - Emma Goldman
• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends. - George F. Will
• The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. - Lao Tsu
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell
• If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. - Elbert Hubbard
• In a society obsessed with arranging every detail of existence, the unintended is ominous. - Unknown
• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
• The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. - Alexis de Tocqueville
• Low-income workers as a group are the major victims of minimum wage legislation. - Keith B. Leffler
• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends. - George F. Will
• This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. - Plato
• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman
• Democracy is not a system of liberty, but a form of tyranny: the tyranny of the majority. - Robert Garmong
• Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis. - Lew Rockwell
• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. - P.J. O’Rourke
• -¦ the next revolution -¦ will be when those who work refuse to support those who don’t. - Walter Hickel
• Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. - William Allen White
• A man who walks down the centre line of a road risks getting hit from both sides. - Alexander Ziatanovic
• Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable. - Anonymous
• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction. - Blaise Pascal
• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
• A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. - Barry Goldwater
• The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. - Alexander Hamilton
• A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
• Criminals obey “gun control” laws in the same manner politicians follow their oaths of office. - Anonymous
• . . . the next revolution . . . will be when those who work refuse to support those who don’t. - Walter Hickel
• Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. – Jay Leno
• Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise themselves to liberty. - Emma Goldman’s epitaph
• … if we be ruined for bravely resisting tyranny, what then be our fate should we submit? - Francis Marion
• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
• Democracy is not a system of liberty, but a form of tyranny: the tyranny of the majority. - Robert Garmong
• Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. – Thomas Jefferson
• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The difference between death and taxes is, death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers
• It is easy to be conspicuously “compassionate” if others are being forced to pay the cost. - Murray N. Rothbard
• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. - Isabel Paterson
• The political ballot box stands for – willingness to be ruled by somebody other than yourself. - Alvin Lowi, Jr.
• A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Gustav Jung
• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater
• We see that not only is the emperor naked–he is a murder, tyrant, brigand, liar, and bungler. – James W. Harris
• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. - Adlai E. Stevenson
• There’s always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. - Tim Robbins
• A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. - Thomas Paine
• If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. - Carl von Clausewitz
• Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure. – William E. Hocking
• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
• Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. - Joseph Stalin
• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. - Adolf Hitler
• Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. - James J. Martin
• If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one. - Robert LeFevre
• Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato
• Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right. - Josiah C. Wedgwood
• Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. - Henry David Thoreau
• Government is not compassion … Government is nothing more than structured, widespread coercion. - Glen Allport
• Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. - David Lloyd George
• The program of [classical] liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. - Ludwig von Mises
• There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - F.A. Hayek
• If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. - Lew Goldberg
• Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. - Jack Hugh
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley
• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. – H.L. Mencken
• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln
• When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. - Gary Lloyd
• Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. - David Lloyd George
• There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state. – James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-197
• The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. - Joseph Sobran
• It conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel
• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman
• When they came for the Branch Davidians, we did not say anything because we were not Branch Davidians. - Doug Newman
• Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. - Andrew Fletcher
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson
• What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. - Thomas Sowell
• When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
• A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot – because the first leads inevitably to the second. - Harry Browne
• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. - Frédéric Bastiat
• Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey
• The word politics is derived from the words “poly” meaning many and “ticks” meaning blood sucking parasites. - Anonymous
• “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one” – Thomas Jefferson
• Unlike the world of free-markets, in political government when some individuals win, other individuals lose. - Robert Klassen
• Publics schools are institutions of coercion. Students are coerced to attend them. Parents are coerced to pay for them. - Gary Reed
• This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. - Ludwig von Mises
• One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. - Thomas B. Reed
• Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt
• I don’t want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer that to their being educated by the state. - Max Victor Belz
• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt. - Mohandas Gandhi
• Democracy says it is acceptable to take money or property from a nonconsenting individual because he is outnumbered. - Unknown
• There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. - Adam Smith
• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. - John Locke
• Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. - Harry Browne
• Politicians never accuse you of “greed” for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money. - Joseph Sobran
• Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. - Jim Babka
• What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else. - Tom Clancy
• The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx
• The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. - Robert A. Heinlein
• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. - John Locke
• Politicians never accuse you of “greed” for wanting other people’s money- only for wanting to keep your own money. - Joseph Sobran
• There is no crueler tyranny that that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. - Charles-Louis de Secondat
• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. - Ayn Rand
• The “private sector” of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and…the “public sector” is, in fact, the coercive sector. - Henry Hazlitt
• In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire
• The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. - Frédéric Bastiat
• A tyranny based on -¦ deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. – Albert Einstein
• Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. - Ludwig von Mises
• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. - H.L. Mencken
• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. - Ludwig von Mises
• Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
• The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. – Anthony Gregory
• A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. - Herbert Spencer
• If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. – Benjamin Tucker
• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman
• It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition that he may abuse it. - Oliver Cromwell
• By forcing an individual to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, it violates the ideals of justice and liberty that the flag is meant to represent. - ACLU
• Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. - Daniel P. Moynihan
• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. - Herbert Spencer
• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. - Robert Heinlein
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
• [We] should not blame a gun itself for any crime or any acts of violence, any more than we can blame a pen for misspelling a word. - Wallace F. Bennett
• No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. - Abraham Lincoln
• The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. - Gustave de Molinari
• … an increase in the power of the State … does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress… – Gandhi
• If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero. - Vassilis Epaminondou
• Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found. - F.A. Harper
• Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens. - Ludwig von Mises
• The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
• The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy. - Fred L. Smith
• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. - Mahatma Gandhi
• The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
• Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - Galbraith’s Law
• The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop. - Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
• The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. - Gustave de Molinari
• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? – George Carlin
• When we vote in an election, we are declaring, by our actions, our support for the process of some people ruling others by coercive means. - Butler Schafer
• Since outright slavery has been discredited, “democracy” is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. - Joseph Sobran
• Each and every time someone says “there ought to be a law” they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will on innocent others. - Michael Barnett
• Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice. - Henry David Thoreau
• Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right. - David Friedman
• Each and every time someone says “there ought to be a law” they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will on innocent others. - Michael Barnett
• The essential notion of a capitalist society -¦ is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. - Milton Friedman
• The greatest gift of freedom is that it allows us to govern ourselves, and the greatest burden of freedom is that it requires us to govern ourselves. - Robert Hawes
• The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” - Thomas Jefferson
• The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. - Ludwig von Mises
• Most economic fallacies derive -¦ from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. - Milton Friedman
• To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. - John Adams
• Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. - Erich Fromm
• Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. – Milton Friedman
• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. - John Locke
• Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 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 ourselves. – Marilyn Ferguson
• Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA – ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State. – Heinrich Himmler
• Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. – Ludwig von Mises
• If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself -¦ We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility. - Michael Cloud
• There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. - Frédéric Bastiat
• It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James Fenimore Cooper
• In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. - Michael Bakunin
• A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort -¦ is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. - Ayn Rand
• The proper direction of man’s thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person’s moral dignity. - Edmund Yates
• The politicians don’t just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. - James Dale Davidson
• To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master. - David Nasaw
• The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. - Friedrich A. Hayek
• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. - Donald James
• If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. - Lysander Spooner
• The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. - Thomas Sowell
• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O’Rourke
• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. - Ludwig von Mises
• Politicians can’t give us anything without depriving us of something else. Government is not a god. Every dime they spend must first be taken from someone else. - Gary Asmus
• Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. - Victor Frankl
• …no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or the desire to free people in other lands. - Emma Goldman
• If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. - Lysander Spooner
• Education – compulsory schooling, compulsory learning – is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit. Let all those escape it who can, any way they can. - John Holt
• 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 Galambos
• The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t waste your time voting. - Charles Bukowski
• The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it. - James A. Donald
• If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. - Auberon Herbert
• Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives. – Jeff Baxter
• Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom. – Rudolph Rummel
• The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That-™s easy: 100 per cent. - Joseph Sobran
• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. – Dresden James
• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves. - D. H. Lawrence
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher
• Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. - Brian S. Wesbury
• -œToday, wanting someone else-™s money is called -˜need,-™ wanting to keep your own money is called -˜greed,-™ and -˜compassion-™ is when politicians arrange the transfer.-Â – Joseph Sobran
• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller
• What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. - Ayn Rand
• We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. - William L. Comer
• An inevitable consequence of socialism is the division of society into two groups: those who are consuming government “services” and those who are paying for them. – Lee Robinson
• I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population. - John Pugsley
• Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper. - Everett Dean Martin
• Mystical references to “society” and its programs to “help” may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. - Thomas Sowell
• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. - Henry Ford
• There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation. - James Madison
• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. - Henry Steele Commager
• The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community. - David D. Boaz
• Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one’s fellow man -¦ that’s what competition is all about: “outpleasing” your competitors to win over the consumers. - Walter Williams
• As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Nelson Mandela
• Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. - James Madison
• Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is. - Charley Reese
• I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else. That is the alpha and omega of my argument. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson
• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm. - P. D. Ouspensky
• In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. - Mark Twain
• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. - Alexander Tytler
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
• Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. - James Madison
• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. - Robert Nozick
• Adam Smith’s key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit. - Milton Friedman
• Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise – competition. - Robert Lutz/Clark Durant
• 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, free education, and a free lunch. - Harry Browne
• Throughout forty centuries of human experience, price controls at their best have always been a miserable failure. At their worst, they have led to famine and bloodshed – to defeat and to disaster. - Irving S. Olds
• The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals. - Emma Goldman
• The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. - Ludwig von Mises
• Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves. – Joseph Sobran
• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. - Leo Tolstoy
• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. - Helen Keller
• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin
• Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. - Lysander Spooner
• The tax-gatherer is the very man I have to deal with — for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel — and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. – Henry David Thoreau
• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. - P.J. O’Rourke
• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi
• This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! - Adolph Hitler
• When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large. - James Taggart
• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. - Helen Keller
• [Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives. - Theodore Forstmann
• The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one’s property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. - Walter Williams
• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat
• The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government. - Neal Boortz
• Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. - F.A. Hayek
• Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. - Ludwig Mises
• Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli
• In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. - Leo Tolstoy
• 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 interests and the making of their own private fortunes. - Ayn Rand
• Voting is “merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable… It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet. - Benjamin Tucker
• On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.- Murray Rothbard
• From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for… – Joseph Labadie
• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help… - Gandhi
• Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action. - Ayn Rand
• Past studies by and large confirm the prediction that higher minimum wages reduce employment opportunities and raise unemployment, particularly among teenagers, minorities and other low-skilled workers. - Masanori Hashimoto
• As you increase the cost of the license to practice medicine, you increase the price at which the medical service must be sold and you correspondingly decrease the number of people who can afford to buy the service. - William Pusey
• The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization. - Henry Hazlitt
• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. - Thomas Sowell
• Public educators, like Soviet farmers, lack any incentive to produce results, innovate, to be efficient, to make the kinds of difficult changes that private firms operating in a competitive market must make to survive. - Carolyn Lochhead
• After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William S. Burroughs
• What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for yourself the alternative of choice. Without the responsibility and exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish
• The fatal flaw in socialism is twofold: first, the conceit inherent in the desire to plan the lives of others; second, the force necessary to impose that plan on unwilling subjects. This is not a formula for freedom but for tyranny. - Jim Peron
• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another -¦ All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. - Emma Goldman
• The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of “freedom”. – Joseph Sobran
• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. - Thomas Sowell
• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. - H L. Mencken
• The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave. - Ludwig von Mises
• War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results. - Joseph Sobran
• The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion. - Michael Bakunin
• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism — by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. - Ayn Rand
• A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. – William A. Niskanen
• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. - Henry Steele Commager
• -œIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.- - John Stuart Mill
• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. - Harry Browne
• Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. - A. Whitney Griswold
• There are many farm handouts; but let’s call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, “Vote for me. I’ll use my office to take another American’s money and give it to you.” - Walter Williams
• The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. - Thomas Jefferson
• He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid. - Epictetus
• It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. - Ayn Rand
• Central planning will eventually destroy individual liberty by concentrating all political power in one person or in a committee; furthermore, it will eventually end our prosperity by laying the dead hand of state control on the economy. – Robert M. Thornton
• If you honestly value diversity, yet believe that it must be administered or doled out by a central authority, you anticipate that the one thing that is most capable of killing diversity, and also has the best incentive to destroy it, will magically act to preserve it. - Cat Farmer
• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination. – Emma Goldman
• Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I’m a bad guy, I’m always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger. We’ll see who wins. - Sammy “The Bull” Gravano
• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson
• -¦ so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. - Voltairine de Cleyre
• [S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others – on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program. - Leonard Read
• Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. - Frank Chodorov
• A strong body makes a strong mind. As to the species of exercise I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks. - Thomas Jefferson
• It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the “right” to education, the “right” to health care, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle. – Alexis De Tocquiville
• 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 of the government’s business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body. - Thomas Szasz
• The higher entry standards imposed by licensing laws reduce the supply of professional services -¦ The poor are the net losers, because the availability of low-cost service has been reduced. In essence, the poor subsidize the information research costs of the rich. - S. David Young
• The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising. - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. - Milton Friedman
• The public school system: “Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.” - Walter Karp
• Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. - Thomas Jefferson
• Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters. - Leonard E. Read
• Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance. – Thomas Szasz
• When the mass media in some foreign countries serve as megaphones for the rhetoric of their government, the result is ludicrous propaganda. When the mass media in our country serve as megaphones for the rhetoric of the U.S. government, the result is responsible journalism. – Norman Solomon
• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable. . . – H. L. Mencken
• Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly “reforming” their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they’re always busy “reforming” is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times. – Lawrence W. Reed
• If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. - Joseph Sobran
• If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects. - Henry David Thoreau
• Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. – Henry Grady Weaver
• It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word “freedom” has no meaning. – Ben Moreell
• If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! – and listens to their testimony. – James Baldwin
• It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, “Thou shalt not steal,” becomes altered to say: “Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft.” - F. A. Harper
• When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don’t own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet. - Lyle Myhr
• 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 government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. - William E. Simon
• Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion – the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals – the technique of the marketplace. - Milton Friedman
• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people. - Robert Anton Wilson
• An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he a establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine
• If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. - Milton Friedman
• The essential quality of a free economy is that it cannot be planned. It leaves the solution of problems to the inspiration of the individuals in the untrammeled population. When something approaching a free economy has existed, it has always worked better than the schemes of any planners. - Thomas H. Barber
• Since there is no such entity as “the public,” since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that “the public interest” supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. - Ayn Rand
• To be governed – is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled – by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations. – Adam Smith
• Benevolence comes from within as a reflection of our personal, individual sense of well-being. To force it, externally – through moral intimidation (altruism), social intimidation (duty), or at the point of a gun (legislation) – debilitates our personal sense of well-being and negates the source of benevolence. - Richard Rieben
• Do not consider Collectivists as “sincere but deluded idealists”. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not “idealistic,” no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. - Ayn Rand
• The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. - Henry Hazlitt
• It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less. - Frederic Bastiat
• The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest “functionaire” possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work. – Frederich von Hayek
• It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress. – David Friedman
• If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. - James Madison
• If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams
• [During the 20th century] -¦ 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. - R. J. Rummel
• Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance. - Henry Hazlit
• Collectivism doesn’t work because it’s based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person’s “fair share” of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless. - P. J. O’Rourke
• The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. – Milton Friedman
• If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. - Samuel Adams
• Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people’s master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed – first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. - Gerry Spence
• In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew -¦ Then they came for the Catholics. I didn’t speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up. - Reverend Martin Niemoller
• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. – Thomas Jefferson, 1764
• The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others – with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. - Henry Grady Weaver
• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. - Adam Smith
• To me, it doesn’t matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine. - Robert Anton Wilson
• The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide. - R. J. Rummel
• The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong. - Samuel Gompers
• Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine. – Victor Ferkiss
• Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else’s parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds. - Milton Friedman
• People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us. – Joseph Sobran
• See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. - Frédéric Bastiat
• 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 a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty – and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. - H.L. Mencken
• Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them. - Lysander Spooner
• What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H.L. Mencken
• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. - Emma Goldman
• We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and “progressive,” others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it’s a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power. - Joseph Sobran
• From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. - Friedrich von Hayek
• The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit – Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do – He does not keep “protecting” you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that. - Lysander Spooner
• The war on “terror” will never be over, it will just change locations. Like the war on drugs, prostitution, pornography, and the many others that will follow, it is a war on humanity. These wars will never be won; the State will just keep creating new boogiemen to frighten us with. The sheep will anxiously anticipate the next fall guy the State offers up as a sacrifice for the war on whatever happens to be next. Be careful, the next pawn could be me or you. - Mike Wasdin
• There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as “caring” and “sensitive” because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money. Well, who isn’t? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he’ll do good with his own money – if a gun is held to his head. - P.J. O’Rourke
• “There is, of course, a very strong connection between addiction and crime, but the connection is the reverse of any argument for prohibition. Crimes are committed by addicts driven to theft by the high price of drugs caused by the outlawry itself! If narcotics were legal, the supply would greatly increase, the high costs of black markets and police payoffs would disappear, and the price would be low enough to eliminate most addict caused crime.” - Murray N. Rothbard
• We must remember that the principal instrument of government is coercion and that our government officials are no more moral, omnipotent, nor omniscient than are any of the rest of us. Once we understand the basic principles which must be observed if freedom is to be safeguarded against government, we may become more hesitant in turning our personal problems and responsibilities over to that agency of coercion, with its insatiable appetite for power. - W. C. Mullendore
• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. - Ron Paul
• Taking somebody’s money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it’s taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it’s National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it’s National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it’s counter-intelligence. - Robert Anton Wilson
• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world – nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters – can and is happening here at home. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
• “Democracy – A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic – negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.” – 1928 U.S. Army Training Manual
• Few of us seem to want to keep government out of our personal affairs and responsibilities. Many of us seem to favor various types of government guaranteed and compulsory “security.” We say that we want personal freedom, but we demand government housing, government price controls, government-guaranteed jobs and wages. We boast that we are responsible persons, but we vote for candidates who promise us special privileges, government pensions, government subsidies, and government electricity. – Dean Russell
• Political elections do not choose leaders of society. Rather, they are an exercise in which groups of people choose individuals who will assist them in looting other groups of individuals, those folks who were unfortunate enough not to be able to elect their own political strongman. The process can be downright blatant, as is the case in African and Asian countries, or it can be relatively subtle as it is in the United States, where the trappings of “constitutionality” and “rule of law” hide many of the more nefarious goings on. - William Anderson
• Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hangs on the results. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the greatest historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us. – Ludwig von Mises
• Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out -¦ People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically “right.” Guns ended that, and a social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith
• The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects – his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity. - Henry Hazlitt
• If [the Declaration of Independence] justifies the secession from the British empire of 3,000,000 of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of 5,000,000 of Southerns from the Federal Union in 1861. – New York Tribune, December 17, 1860 For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent. - Jacob Hornberger
• When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he does’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you. – Milton Friedman
• The pattern is as old as human life. The new rulers use more and more force, more police, more soldiers, trying to enforce more efficient control, trying to make the planned economy work by piling regulations on regulations, decree on decree. The people are hungry and hungrier. And how does a man on this earth get butter? Doesn’t the government give butter? But government does not produce food from the earth; Government is guns. It is one common distinction of all civilized peoples, that they give their guns to the Government. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use. - Rose Wilder Lane
• It would be an error, of course, to believe that the guardianship of the authority over the individual could remain confined to the domain of health, that the authority would conceivably be satisfied to forbid or to limit the use of dangerous poisons like opium, morphine, possibly also alcohol and nicotine, but that otherwise the freedom of the individual would remain untouched. Once the principle is acknowledged that the consumption choices of the individual are to be supervised and restricted by the authority, how far this control will expand depends only on the authority and the public opinion which motivates it. It then becomes logically impossible to oppose tendencies which want to subject all activity of the individual to the care of the state. Why only protect the body from the harm caused by poisons or drugs? Why not also protect our minds and souls from dangerous doctrines and opinions imperiling our eternal salvation? Depriving the individual of the freedom of the choice of consumption logically leads to the abolition of all freedom. - Ludwig von Mises

Books

Adventures in Legal Land by Marc Stevens
Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice edited by Ed Stringham
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Complete Liberty by Wes Bertrand
The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
The Creature for Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block
Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
The Enterprise of Law by Bruce Benson
For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression by Mary Ruwart
How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World by Harry Browne
I Must Speak Out: The Best of the Voluntaryist edited by Carl Watner
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Liberalism In the Classical Tradition by Ludwig von Mises
The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman
The Market for Liberty by Morris & Linda Tannehill
The Myth of National Defense edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by �tienne de La Bo�tie
Power and Market by Murray Rothbard
The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice by Bruce Benson
What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard
You and the State by Jan Narveson
Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax by Sheldon Richman
The Voluntary City edited by David Beito, Peter Gordon & Alexander Tabarrok

• John Galt’s Speech – Atlas Shrugged 2-min.
• Lysander Spooner, Abolitionist & Scholar Lives On 2-min.
• Leftover Crack – Operation M.O.V.E. 3-min.
• George Ought to Help 4-min.
• The Broken Window Fallacy 4-min.
• Serj Tankian – The Unthinking Majority 4-min.
• Brother Ali – Uncle Sam Goddamn 5-min.
• I, Anarchy 5-min.
• Corporate Avenger – Taxes Are Stealing 5-min.
• What the Hell is Activism? 6-min.
• The Fountainhead – Howard Roark Speech 6-min.
• Lowkey – Terrorist? 7-min.
• The Tiny Dot 7-min.
• The Philosophy of Liberty 8-min.
• Guns N’ Roses – Civil War 8-min.
• The Biggest Lies about Recessions and War 8-min.
• Fear the Boom and Bust a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem 8-min.
• The Sunset of the State 10-min.
• I’m Allowed to Rob You! 10-min.
• Statism is Slavery 10-min.
• Realizing Freedom: Cato Institute Scholar Tom G. Palmer on Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice 10-min.
• How Could A Voluntary Society Function? 13-min.
• The Truth About Voting 17-min.
• The Reason To Peacefully Cooperate 18-min.
• The Proof of Anarchy 19-min.
• Karl Hess: Toward Liberty 26-min.
• The Source of Government Power 28-min.
• Murray N. Northbard – Man, Economy and Liberty 29-min.
• Inside the Hayek Equation: An Interview with Friedrich von Hayek 30-min.
• Friedrich von Hayek: Fighting the Planners 35-min.
• The Ethical Case Against Intellectual Property 37-min.
• Ludwig von Mises Speaks: Recollections from the University of Vienna 38-min.
• Liberty and Economics The Ludwig von Mises Legacy 38-min.
• Adventures in Legal Land 40-min.
• Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve 42-min.
• Murray N. Rothbard – The Gold Standard Before the Civil War 42-min.
• Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve 42-min.
• Politics versus Personal Liberty 42-min.
• Agorist Class Theory: A Left-Libertarian Approach to Class Conflict Analysis 48-min.
• Murray N. Rothbard – The Future of Austrian Economics 49-min.
• Torture: America’s Brutal Prison’s 50-min.
• Can The Monetary System Regulate Itself? 51-min.
• Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself 58-min.
• How to Advance Liberty 62-min.
• A Peace of the Anarchy: Ammon Hennacy and Other Angelic Troublemakers 69-min.
• Anarchism in America 74-min.
• How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t 77-min.
• Statism is Dead 78-min.
• Grass: The History Of Marijuana 79-min.
• Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman 87-min.
• The Wobblies 89-min.
• The Murder of Fred Hampton 90-min.
• How Weed Won The West 103-min.
• For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty 115-min.
• Murray N. Rothbard: Libertarianism 120-min.
• American Drug War: The Last White Hope 122-min.
• Waco: The Rules of Engagement 135-min.
• America: Freedom to Fascism 149-min.
• The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude 162-min.