Libertarian Quotes

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

— Vince Flynn

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

— N. F. Simpson

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

— Carl Sagan

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

— David Lloyd George

I can spend your money better than you can.

— William J. Clinton

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

— Thomas Jefferson

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

— James Madison

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

— Tom Robbins

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

— Stefan Molyneux

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

— Daniel Okrent

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”

— Richard Epstein

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Anonymous

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

— Ayn Rand

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that…

— Gary Johnson

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

— Gustave de Molinari

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the…

— Edward Abbey

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and…

— Richard Dreyfuss

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like…

— Brandon Simpson

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the…

— John F. Kennedy

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H. L. Mencken

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply…

— Roger Stone

The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt…

— F. A. Harper

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended…

— Noam Chomsky

A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“As I explain in 'What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist', to be an anarchist simply means you oppose aggression, and you…

— N. Stephan Kinsella

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no…

— Thomas Jefferson

“There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games".…

— A.E. Samaan

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in…

— Rudolf Rocker

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and…

— Walter E. Williams

What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,…

— George Leef

I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my…

— Murray Bookchin