1325: Alex Merced – Being Libertarian

Being libertarian doesn’t mean hating progressives or conservatives. It means loving individual rights enough to not force them to be like you. —Alex MercedDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.41MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 223KB
Being libertarian doesn’t mean hating progressives or conservatives. It means loving individual rights enough to not force them to be like you. —Alex MercedDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.76MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 300KB

Being libertarian doesn’t mean hating progressives or conservatives. It means loving individual rights enough to not force them to be like you. —Alex Merced

1318: Jimmy Wales – Hayek & Wikipedia

Hayek’s work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. One can’t understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek. —Jimmy Wales, Founder of WikipediaDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.07MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 217KB
Hayek’s work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. One can’t understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek. —Jimmy Wales, Founder of WikipediaDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.49MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 278KB

Hayek’s work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. One can’t understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek. —Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

1313: Karl Hess – The Radical Position is a Lonely One

The radical-revolutionary position is a lonely one. It is feared and hated, by both Right and Left — although both Right and Left must borrow from it to survive. The radical-revolutionary position is libertarianism, and its socioeconomic form is laissez-faire capitalism. —Karl HessDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 161KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 86KB
The radical-revolutionary position is a lonely one. It is feared and hated, by both Right and Left — although both Right and Left must borrow from it to survive. The radical-revolutionary position is libertarianism, and its socioeconomic form is laissez-faire capitalism. —Karl HessDownload Print Quality (7680×7680) 242KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 125KB

The radical-revolutionary position is a lonely one. It is feared and hated, by both Right and Left — although both Right and Left must borrow from it to survive. The radical-revolutionary position is libertarianism, and its socioeconomic form is laissez-faire capitalism. —Karl Hess

1291: Ludwig von Mises – Most Tyrants and Despots

Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people. —Ludwig von MisesDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 304KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 150KB
Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people. —Ludwig von MisesDownload Print Quality (7680×7680) 430KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 364KB

Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people. —Ludwig von Mises

1290: Ludwig von Mises – The Essential Feature of Government

The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. —Ludwig von MisesDownload Print Quality (5540×7680) 1,004KB  |  Normal Quality (2770×3840) 903KB

1285: Lysander Spooner – If Money Can Be Taken by Government

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. —Lysander SpoonerDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 3.00MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 215KB
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. —Lysander SpoonerDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 3.75MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 260KB

If any man’s money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. —Lysander Spooner

1272: David Boaz – Libertarianism and Socialism

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community. —David BoazDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 9.06MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 365KB
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community. —David BoazDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 12.44MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 505KB

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community. —David Boaz

1265: John Stossel – People Are Not Comfortable with Freedom

People are not comfortable with freedom. They're scared, they're worried that if people can do whatever they want, the rich will abuse the poor, the strong will abuse the weak. It's just easier to believe that if you elect wise people who want to help, that it will be better. But it doesn’t help.
Once I learned [libertarianism] it was just clear to me, but most people will never either spend the time to learn it or they can't learn it. —John StosselDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 6.96MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 339KB
People are not comfortable with freedom. They're scared, they're worried that if people can do whatever they want, the rich will abuse the poor, the strong will abuse the weak. It's just easier to believe that if you elect wise people who want to help, that it will be better. But it doesn’t help.
Once I learned [libertarianism] it was just clear to me, but most people will never either spend the time to learn it or they can't learn it. —John StosselDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 9.89MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 464KB

People are not comfortable with freedom. They’re scared, they’re worried that if people can do whatever they want, the rich will abuse the poor, the strong will abuse the weak. It’s just easier to believe that if you elect wise people who want to help, that it will be better. But it doesn’t help.
Once I learned [libertarianism] it was just clear to me, but most people will never either spend the time to learn it or they can’t learn it. —John Stossel

1262: Murray Rothbard – The Right-Wing Honeyed Words

I grew up a right-winger, and became more intensely a libertarian rightist as I grew older. How come I am an exile from the Right-wing, while the conservative movement is being run by a gaggle of ex-Communists and monarchists? What kind of a conservative movement is this? This kind: one that you have no business being in. I got out of the Right-wing not because I ceased believing in liberty, but because being a libertarian above all, I came to see that the Right-wing specialized in cloaking its authoritarian and neo-fascist policies in the honeyed words of libertarian rhetoric. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 3.06MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 203KB
I grew up a right-winger, and became more intensely a libertarian rightist as I grew older. How come I am an exile from the Right-wing, while the conservative movement is being run by a gaggle of ex-Communists and monarchists? What kind of a conservative movement is this? This kind: one that you have no business being in. I got out of the Right-wing not because I ceased believing in liberty, but because being a libertarian above all, I came to see that the Right-wing specialized in cloaking its authoritarian and neo-fascist policies in the honeyed words of libertarian rhetoric. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 4.96MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 260KB

I grew up a right-winger… I got out of the Right-wing not because I ceased believing in liberty, but because being a libertarian above all, I came to see that the Right-wing specialized in cloaking its authoritarian and neo-fascist policies in the honeyed words of libertarian rhetoric. —Murray Rothbard

1246: Murray Rothbard – Only Through Rational Persuasion, Not Violence

Men can become more moral only through rational persuasion, not through violence, which will, in fact, have the opposite effect. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 7.83MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 204KB
Men can become more moral only through rational persuasion, not through violence, which will, in fact, have the opposite effect. —Murray RothbardDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 10.29MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 266KB

Men can become more moral only through rational persuasion, not through violence, which will, in fact, have the opposite effect. —Murray Rothbard