Of course the Democrats and Republicans have all the answers. That’s why we have at least twice as much government as we should.

My freedom ends where your's begins.

Government is at least partly to blame for many problems that politicians offer to solve. And the solutions often make problems worse.

More government always translates into less freedom.

Libertarians have adopted the best of what the other political parties offer…and less.

Libertarians believe in people much more than government.

If you expect government to tell other people what to do then you have to expect other people to ask government to tell you what to do.

One person's morality is another person's tyranny.

Crime involves harm including murder, assault, rape, theft, property damage and fraud.

Government is important. For example, the government holds criminals accountable for harm caused; that's why we have a court system.

It is much easier to tear liberty apart than it is to build it.

Unlike members of the other parties I can state my core principle in one word…freedom.

Foreign aid is mostly a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

The best regulation is stiff competition.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

- Ronal Reagan, 1976, Reason Magazine

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

- Harry S. Truman, 1962

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

- Dave Barry

Liberty tends to fly apart unless people continuously work to hold it together.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

- Charles Peguy

That government is best which governs least.

- Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

- Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the issue.

- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

- Milton Friedman

…the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

- Daniel Webster

Love your country, but never trust its government.

- Robert A. Heinlein

When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

Those who have been intoxicated with power can never willingly abandon it.

- Edmund Burke

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

- Plato

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

In politics 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

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

- James Madison

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

- George Bernard Shaw

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

- Adolph Hitler, upon the creation of the Gestapo [1922]

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

- James Madison