Voices of Liberty

“During the French Revolution, when the price of bread rose, they would cut off the bakers’ heads, and the more bakers’ heads they cut off, the higher the price of bread rose.” — Armando Ribas

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.” — Lord Acton

“When the state calls you a taxpayer, it’s equivalent to a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend.” — Javier Milei

“The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.” — Murray Rothbard

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” — Ronald Reagan

“Advance consists in the few convincing the many. New views must appear somewhere before they can become majority views.” — F. A. Hayek

“A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic.” — Milton Friedman

“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.” — Thomas Jefferson

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” — Ludwig von Mises

“Mao and Stalin and Hitler didn’t come to power promoting tyranny. They came to power promising equality.” — Rand Paul

“Thank God we are all different. That creates division of labor: everyone specializes in what they are relatively best at. What that does is not only raise productivity, but it also fosters social cooperation.” — Javier Milei

“In order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, the result is necessarily inequality.” — F. A. Hayek

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.” — Ayn Rand

“Liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good—and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake.” — Thomas Sowell

“All of the Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” — Margaret Thatcher

“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.” — John Stuart Mill

“Socialists don’t like the invisible hand. They prefer the claws of the state, and they hide behind the discourse of social justice.” — Javier Milei

“The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good—anyway, to do something to us or to make us something.” — C. S. Lewis