Libertarian Quotes

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

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.