The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. " A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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.
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.
All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.
Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.