Libertarian Quotes

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

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

Right isn't always legal.

When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

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

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

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

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

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

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

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

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

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

History is the same story with different costumes.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

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

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.