Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.