Libertarian Quotes

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to th...

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learn...

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not w...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any ques...

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule o...

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in or...

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with ...

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

Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bure...

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

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

Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it ...

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

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

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

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd suppor...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires v...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

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

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

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

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

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

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does i...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted...

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son ha...

In the first place, it would efface from everybody’sconscience the distinction between justice and i...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...