Libertarian Quotes

A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing.

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

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

Lao Tzu

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

Ludwig von Mises

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.

Rex Curry

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

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to useful working technologies. But in economics and the other social studies, nutty ideas may hang around for centuries. Today, leading presidential candidates and tens of millions of voters in the USA embrace ideas that might have been drawn from a 17th-century book on the theory and practice of mercantilism, and multitudes of politicians and ordinary people espouse notions that Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and others exploded more than two centuries ago. In these realms, nearly everyone simply believes whatever he feels good about believing.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.