Libertarianism Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

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?

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

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

Stefan Molyneux

If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.

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

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Tiffany Madison

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.

Ludwig von Mises

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Cormac McCarthy

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.

Stefan Molyneux

I love my country, not my government.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

Kevin D. Williamson

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation.

Christopher Hitchens