1Declaration: Free Markets, Free People, Free Minds

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
--Andre Marrou

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
--John Hay (1872)

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
--Winston Churchill

If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
--Ludwig von Mises

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
--Thomas Jefferson

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.
--Joseph Sobran

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
--Albert Einstein

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
--Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
--Friedrich Hayek

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
--Samuel Adams

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot, because the first leads inevitably to the second.
--Harry Browne

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
--Charles A. Beard

The small minority of adults who are unable rather than unwilling to work, have to rely on voluntary charity; misfortune is not a claim to slave labor; there is no such thing as the right to consume, control, and destroy those without whom one would be unable to survive.
--Ayn Rand

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
--Thomas Jefferson

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
--Ayn Rand

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
--Ron Paul

The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy.
--Fred L. Smith (1992)

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
--Mohandas Gandhi

I can say - not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, and aesthetic roots - that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
--Ayn Rand

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent. --H.L. Mencken


[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
--Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
--Patrick Henry

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
--Thomas Jefferson

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
--Thomas Sowell (1992)

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson

The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
--Edmund Burke (1899)

When they kept you out it was because you were black, when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
--Marilyn French

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
--Thomas Jefferson

If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!
--Ayn Rand

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
--Ayn Rand

Force Always Attracts Men of Low Morality.
--Albert Einstein

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
--Goethe

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
--Noam Chomsky

The power to tax is the power to destroy.
--John Marshall

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
--Aldous Huxley

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
--Ron Paul

When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.
--George Mason

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
--Mark Twain