No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that’s what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.

Hardy studied me for another long moment. A smile curled one corner of his mouth. ‘I can give you some pointers. Lord knows you couldn’t get any worse.’ ‘Mexicans can’t play basketball,’ I said. ‘I...

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there...

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

Don’t let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn’t be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public...

I’ve said it before, history repeats itself for those who don’t learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and...

Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in...

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it...

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business…because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

The Pledge of Allegiance says ‘liberty and justice for all’. Which part of ‘all’ don’t you understand?

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the...

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

Don’t oppress, don’t accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great – but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has...

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

Vox populi vox Dei

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches...

The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what...

Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let’s go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of...

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think….Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers....

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we’ll be perennially bound to others for...

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our...

Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught...

I’ve devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I’ve denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would...

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don’t value freedom until it is taken away.

the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them to follow ministers and ministers’ rivals, by persuading them to support...

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.