I am a very peaceful man. I love people and I am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. —Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee 2004)
A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Individual Rights are not subject to a public vote. —Ayn Rand
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. —Milton Friedman
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. —Pericles
If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. —Tom Woods
No matter how well-intentioned these governors may be, no matter how sound their medical advice is, if the common good could trump your natural rights then they wouldn’t be rights. —Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mises Institute, 13 July 2020)
When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn Rand
There is no moral difference between a sales tax, property tax or income tax. They all take, without consent, what someone created with their freedom and liberty and give it to an entity that has no right to have it. — Anthony Welti
