Top Libertarian Quotes

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

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.

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

When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining that a particular statist is never going to "get it." I often respond by saying that that's r...

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through com...

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little le...

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public w...

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam,...

Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deem...

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.