Top Libertarian Quotes

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

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.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the fund...

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wis...

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all...

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spir...

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct a...

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

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conv...