Racism has been supported in this country not despite of, but thanks to, governmental power and politics. Reverse racism — thinking that government is competent to force people to integrate, just as it once forced them to segregate — is just as political and just as disastrous. It has not worked. Its product has been hatred rather than brotherhood. —Karl Hess
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand
I think all those laws against victimless crimes where people are only hurting themselves should be repealed and dealt with in a manner that would actually help people, as opposed to throwing them in jail and taking them away from their families. —Julie Borowski
If you haven’t taken the time to learn econ and ensure your ideas don’t hurt people, you can’t claim to care about them. —Hannah Cox
Gun control in America was initially created to stop melanated beings from having firearms. Whether they make it look like you have to pay a fee, or you have to do this, or you have to do that—all gun control is racist. —Maj Toure, Founder, Black Guns Matter
The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew Napolitano
Over 40,000 people die on the nation’s roadways every year, and you or a loved one might one day join this horrid list.
Do not be mislead by the oft made contention that the actual cause of highway fatalities is speed, drunkenness, vehicle malfunction, driver error, etc. These are only proximate causes. The ultimate cause of our dying like flies in traffic accidents is that those who own and manage these assets supposedly in the name of the public—the various roads bureaucrats—cannot manage their way out of the proverbial paper bag. It is they and they alone who are responsible for this carnage.
This does not mean that were thoroughfares placed in private hands that the death toll would be zero. It would not. But, at least, every time the life of someone was tragically snuffed out, someone in a position to ameliorate these dangerous conditions would lose money, and this tends, wonderfully, to focus the minds of the owners. This is why we do not have similar problems with bananas, baskets, and bicycles, and the myriad of other goods and services supplied to us by a (relatively) free enterprise system.
—Walter Block
There are only a few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. —Thomas Sowell
Imagine auditing the Federal Reserve? Wait till the masses realize their money has no value, that Congress is enslaving our future generations into paying their impossible-to-pay-off debt, and that our whole currency system is one big Ponzi scheme that’s about to collapse. —Mindy Robinson
We are going to make the Libertarian Party something libertarians can be proud of. —Dave Smith
