Top Libertarian Quotes

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

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...

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.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

Workers of the world unite???? How'bout.... Staunch individualists disperse!!!

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

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

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state whi...

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are...

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities;...

For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit...

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...

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.