Top Libertarian Quotes

SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctr...

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

History is the same story with different costumes.

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

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependen...

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...

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

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