Libertarianism Quotes

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

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

The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

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

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

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

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the "offender." This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.

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

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us in connecting individual facts, but which, like logic or mathematics, is not about the facts. It can, therefore, and this is the second point, never be verified or falsified by reference to facts.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

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

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.

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

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.

Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery.

We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.

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

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.