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Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

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.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He who controls the past controls the future.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

I can spend your money better than you can.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

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.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.