“ People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the… John Hasnas
“ When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you… Stefan Molyneux
“ Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whe… Stephan Kinsella
“ When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum. Stefan Molyneux
“ Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals… Murray N. Rothbard
“ State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing. Jeffrey Tucker
“ The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration. Ludwig von Mises
“ Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion… Robert Higgs
“ If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to s… Lysander Spooner
“ Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Ind… Jeffrey Tucker
“ Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it. Lucretia Mott
“ Set men up to rule their fellow-men, to treat them as mere soulless material with which they may deal as they please, and the consequence is that you sweep away every moral landmark and turn this worl… Auberon Herbert
“ Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy," which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive". Larken Rose
“ As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power t… Mary J. Ruwart
“ My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference… Lawrence W. Reed
