Libertarian Quotes

Libertarian Quote of the day

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also beprotected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

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

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.