Libertarianism Quotes

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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.

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

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I love my country, not my government.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

[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.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

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.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

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

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

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.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

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.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

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

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

[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.

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.

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

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

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

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

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