Libertarianism Quotes

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

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale.

There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games". There is no choice available to the public allowing it to avoid a big over-arching government. You can always chose not do business with a big corporation. Corporations that are distasteful can be avoided. A big, powerful, government bent on intrusion cannot be avoided.

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

Murray N. Rothbard

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.

Frédéric Bastiat

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

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

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

Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed.

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea Economy". You cannot centrally plan the "Idea Economy" any more than you can plan fun or spontaneity. Regulations are restraints in an "Idea Economy". The entrepreneur is either free to experiment or not.

Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.