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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

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.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.