Graveyard Stories

"Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can." - Karl Hess

"The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean." - Jason Brennan

"When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence." - Larken Rose

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frédéric Bastiat

"Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety." - George Reisman

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny." - Emiliano Zapata

"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities." - Robert Nozick

"For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings." - Jason Brennan

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms." - Ron Paul

"There are in the market economy no conflicts between the interests of the buyers and sellers." - Ludwig von Mises

"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

"You don't need a treaty to have free trade." - Murray Rothbard

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny." - Aeschylus

"Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything." - Glenn Greenwald

"There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit." - Peter Schiff

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted." - James Madison

"Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less." - P. J. O'Rourke

"I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer that to their being educated by the state." - Max Victor Belz

"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." - Ayn Rand

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." - Thomas Pynchon