Libertarian Quotes

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

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

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

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

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

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

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

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

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

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".

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

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

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

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

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

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

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