Top Libertarian Quotes

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

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.

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the ci...

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and delibera...

There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea Economy". You cannot centrally plan the "Idea Economy" any more than you can plan fun or spontaneity...

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whe...

There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games". There is no choice available to the public allowing it to avoid a big over-arching gov...

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to...

Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it co...

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals...

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the...

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.