Libertarian Quotes

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

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

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

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

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

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

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.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

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

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

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

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

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

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

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

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

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

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.

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

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

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

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

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

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

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also beprotected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

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

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.

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

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

INDECISION NOW!' isn’t a battle cry that’s going to rouse anybody’s blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn’t the sanest one.