Top Libertarian Quotes

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.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

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.

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...

The law is an opinion with a gun.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

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...

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