“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.”
Camille Paglia
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
Frederic Bastiat
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
“There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read”
Ayn Rand
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else”
“I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”
Berkeley Breathed
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
Thomas Jefferson
