Top Libertarian Quotes

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of indivi...

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.

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.

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

As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I...

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...

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

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

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

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

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

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

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultim...

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

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

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few pe...