There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frédéric Bastiat

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Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.

Larken Rose

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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thomas Sowell

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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 Tocqueville

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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

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It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray N. Rothbard

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I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.

I’m scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be “authority”, and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.

I don’t care if there’s one looney with a stupid moustache. He’s not a threat if the people do not believe in “authority.”

Larken Rose

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The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

John Cleese

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Let the wealth be created first; it won’t rot in the lockers.

Dr Khalil Ahmad

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Albert Camus

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When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended.’

Stefan Molyneux

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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

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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

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Ludwig von Mises

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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Today, 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.

Joseph Sobran

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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman

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Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan

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What individualism teaches us is that society is greater than the individual only in so far as it is free. In so far as it is controlled or directed, it is limited to the powers of the individual minds which control or direct it.

F.A. Hayek

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If goods do not cross borders, armies will.

Frédéric Bastiat

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Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money.

Margaret Thatcher

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A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.

Edward Murrow

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The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Frédéric Bastiat