Laissez Faire Quotes

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.