Top Libertarian Quotes

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities;...

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

Libertarian Definition

(a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

(n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

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

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

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

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

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.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state whi...

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within w...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are...

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally...

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. Th...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.