Libertarian Quotes
Libertarian Quote of the day
When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.
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.
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
