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State interference in economic life, which calls itself "economic policy" has done nothing but destroy economic life.

— Ludwig von Mises



Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.

— John Dryden



They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people’s money.

— Margaret Thatcher



How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I say that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

— H.D. Thoreau



Reason teaches all mankind that no one ought to harm another in his life, liberty, or possessions.

— John Locke



It seem to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

— F.A.Hayek



I cannot convince myself that there is anyone so wise, so universally comprehensive in his judgment, that he can be trusted with the power to tell others: "You shall not express yourself thus, you shall not describe your own experiences; or depict the fantasies which your mind has created; or laugh at what others set up as respectable; or question old beliefs; or contradict the dogmas of the church, of our society, our economic systems, and our political orthodoxy."

— Jake Zeitlin



I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

— Thomas Jefferson



Is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else!

— Epictetus



My body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm [...] it is I who suffers, not the state.

— Mark Twain