Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don’t know whom to blame for their calamity. —Walter Williams
![The point of no return, they [politicians] claim, will soon dawn on us unless politicians are granted unlimited power to meddle in the affairs of the citizenry. It just so happens that this needs to occur prior to, but no later than, their next bid for re-election. —Steven Clyde](https://misesmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/f1198-steven-clyde-their-next-bid-for-re-election.jpg)
![The point of no return, they [politicians] claim, will soon dawn on us unless politicians are granted unlimited power to meddle in the affairs of the citizenry. It just so happens that this needs to occur prior to, but no later than, their next bid for re-election. —Steven Clyde](https://misesmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/lw1198-steven-clyde-their-next-bid-for-re-election.jpg)
![The point of no return, they [politicians] claim, will soon dawn on us unless politicians are granted unlimited power to meddle in the affairs of the citizenry. It just so happens that this needs to occur prior to, but no later than, their next bid for re-election. —Steven Clyde](https://misesmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/lf1198-steven-clyde-their-next-bid-for-re-election.jpg)
The point of no return, they [politicians] claim, will soon dawn on us unless politicians are granted unlimited power to meddle in the affairs of the citizenry. It just so happens that this needs to occur prior to, but no later than, their next bid for re-election. —Steven Clyde
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you. —Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee 2004)
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. —Peter Schiff
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state. —Lew Rockwell
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job. —Peter Schiff
All they really mean by the takeover language is they want to re-radicalize the Libertarian Party and make it libertarian again. Let me tell you something… I sure hope that takeover happens in Reno. —Caryn Ann Harlos
There are two things that bring people to the ballot box. Hope and Change. We’ve got to get in the face of the public and show them that our policies will enrich their lives. —Joshua Smith
Prohibiting something that is highly desired does not make the desire go away but merely ensures that the supply of that good is provided in the most dangerous and undesirable manner possible, and endows criminal sectors of society with additional wealth and power. —Ron Paul (The Revolution: A Manifesto)
We are libertarians of the will as well as the intellect, of activity as well as theory, of real-world struggle as well as idealistic vision. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. Secure in the knowledge that we are in the right, inspired by the vision, determination and courage of our forbears, we dedicate ourselves to the noblest cause of all, the old American cause, of individual liberty. —Murray Rothbard