Libertarianism Quotes

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

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

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

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

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

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

Even Adam Smith's "invisible hand" occasionally needs a slap on the wrist.

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.