“ No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. Ludwig von Mises
“ It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend. Friedrich A. Hayek
“ The demoralization that the debasement of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bringing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933. Henry Hazlitt
“ There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State. Murray N. Rothbard
“ What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organ… Robert Higgs
“ 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, thos… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have… Frederic Bastiat
“ To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealo… Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
“ 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… Henry Grady Weaver
“ Once you understand the economics of the Austrian School and the philosophy of liberty in the tradition of Rothbard, you never look at anything – not the state, the media, the central bank, the politi… Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
“ A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk ab… Ron Paul
“ Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
“ The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education" o… Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
“ The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one g… Ron Paul
“ There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion. Frederic Bastiat
“ The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater effort the former devote to work, nor even from any greater technological knowledge the former hold. I… Jesús Huerta de Soto
“ When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. Ayn Rand
“ Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual's… Frank Karsten
