Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land. — Laozi Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He is not like Ron Swanson at all because he's very emotional and vulnerable. He is all of the things that I… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
“The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this… — Leonard E. Read Copy Share Image
“If you care about other people, that's now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.” — John Hospers Copy Share Image
A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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![“[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't…” quote by Bob Black](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/af3/bob-black-24650_care_libertarians-don-t-denounce-what-the-sta_1854836.jpg)
