# Quotes from the Liberty Archive

> Verified quotes from Austrian and classical-liberal economists, checked against the archive's full-text corpus, with the exact passage and free book behind every one.

Every quote is checked against [The Liberty Archive](https://freecapitalists.org/)'s own full-text corpus before it's published here; see verification tiers at https://freecapitalists.org/how-its-built/.

## Authors

- [Ludwig von Mises](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/ludwig-von-mises/) -- 159 quotes
- [Ayn Rand](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/ayn-rand/) -- 74 quotes
- [Frédéric Bastiat](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/frederic-bastiat/) -- 15 quotes
- [Thomas Jefferson](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/thomas-jefferson/) -- 11 quotes
- [Thomas Sowell](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/thomas-sowell/) -- 10 quotes
- [Robert A. Heinlein](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/robert-a-heinlein/) -- 9 quotes
- [Murray N. Rothbard](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/murray-n-rothbard/) -- 8 quotes
- [Francis Bacon](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/francis-bacon/) -- 5 quotes
- [Thomas Paine](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/thomas-paine/) -- 5 quotes
- [Adam Smith](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/adam-smith/) -- 4 quotes
- [Cicero](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/cicero/) -- 4 quotes
- [Friedrich A. Hayek](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/friedrich-a-hayek/) -- 4 quotes
- [John Taylor Gatto](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/john-taylor-gatto/) -- 4 quotes
- [Lucille Ball](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/lucille-ball/) -- 4 quotes
- [Aristotle](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/aristotle/) -- 3 quotes
- [George Bernard Shaw](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/george-bernard-shaw/) -- 3 quotes
- [George Orwell](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/george-orwell/) -- 3 quotes
- [H. L. Mencken](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/h-l-mencken/) -- 3 quotes
- [Milton Friedman](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/milton-friedman/) -- 3 quotes
- [Ronald Reagan](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/ronald-reagan/) -- 3 quotes
- [Walter Williams](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/walter-williams/) -- 3 quotes
- [William Shakespeare](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/william-shakespeare/) -- 3 quotes
- [Benjamin Franklin](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/benjamin-franklin/) -- 2 quotes
- [H.L. Menken](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/h-l-menken/) -- 2 quotes
- [J.R.R. Tolkien](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/j-r-r-tolkien/) -- 2 quotes
- [Mark Twain](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/mark-twain/) -- 2 quotes
- [Alan Kay](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/alan-kay/) -- 1 quote
- [Albert Jay Nock](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/albert-jay-nock/) -- 1 quote
- [Andrew Bernstein](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/andrew-bernstein/) -- 1 quote
- [Arthur C. Clarke](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/arthur-c-clarke/) -- 1 quote
- [Bertrand Russell](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/bertrand-russell/) -- 1 quote
- [Charles Darwin](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/charles-darwin/) -- 1 quote
- [Christopher Hitchens](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/christopher-hitchens/) -- 1 quote
- [Christopher Morley](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/christopher-morley/) -- 1 quote
- [Continental Congress](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/continental-congress/) -- 1 quote
- [Daniel Burnham](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/daniel-burnham/) -- 1 quote
- [Delos Banning McKown](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/delos-banning-mckown/) -- 1 quote
- [Donald Rumsfeld](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/donald-rumsfeld/) -- 1 quote
- [Frank Lloyd Wright](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/frank-lloyd-wright/) -- 1 quote
- [Frederick Douglass](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/frederick-douglass/) -- 1 quote
- [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/friedrich-nietzsche/) -- 1 quote
- [Galileo Galilei](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/galileo-galilei/) -- 1 quote
- [George Reisman](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/george-reisman/) -- 1 quote
- [Helen Keller](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/helen-keller/) -- 1 quote
- [Henry Miller](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/henry-miller/) -- 1 quote
- [Isaac Newton](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/isaac-newton/) -- 1 quote
- [James Fenimore Cooper](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/james-fenimore-cooper/) -- 1 quote
- [Jeff Burroughs](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/jeff-burroughs/) -- 1 quote
- [John Holt](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/john-holt/) -- 1 quote
- [John Maynard Keynes](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/john-maynard-keynes/) -- 1 quote
- [Joseph de Maistre](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/joseph-de-maistre/) -- 1 quote
- [Kurt Lewin](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/kurt-lewin/) -- 1 quote
- [Leonard E. Read](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/leonard-e-read/) -- 1 quote
- [Linda Bowles](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/linda-bowles/) -- 1 quote
- [Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/martin-luther-king-jr/) -- 1 quote
- [P.J. O'Rourke](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/p-j-o-rourke/) -- 1 quote
- [Paul Johnson](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/paul-johnson/) -- 1 quote
- [Penn Jillette](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/penn-jillette/) -- 1 quote
- [Peter O'Toole](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/peter-o-toole/) -- 1 quote
- [Philip K. Dick](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/philip-k-dick/) -- 1 quote
- [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/robert-green-ingersoll/) -- 1 quote
- [Socrates](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/socrates/) -- 1 quote
- [Sophocles](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/sophocles/) -- 1 quote
- [Stephen King](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/stephen-king/) -- 1 quote
- [Steven Pinker](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/steven-pinker/) -- 1 quote
- [Terry Goodkind](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/terry-goodkind/) -- 1 quote
- [Timothy Ferris](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/timothy-ferris/) -- 1 quote
- [U.S. Constitution](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/u-s-constitution/) -- 1 quote
- [Voltaire](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/voltaire/) -- 1 quote
- [Will Rogers](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/will-rogers/) -- 1 quote
- [William Blake](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/william-blake/) -- 1 quote
- [William H. Borah](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/william-h-borah/) -- 1 quote
- [William Pitt the Younger](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/william-pitt-the-younger/) -- 1 quote
- [William Slim](https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/authors/william-slim/) -- 1 quote

Machine-readable quote data: https://quotes.freecapitalists.org/quotes.json