Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
. . . the next revolution. . . will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.
The plans differ; the planners are all alike.
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
To be governed. . . is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
The essential notion of a capitalist society. . . is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.