Libertarianism Quotes

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

— N. F. Simpson

I can spend your money better than you can.

— William J. Clinton

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

— James Madison

Dependence leads to subservience.

— Thomas Jefferson

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

— Laozi

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

— James Bovard

As government expands, liberty contracts.

— Ronald Reagan

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

— Frederic Bastiat

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

— Seneca the Younger

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

— Thomas Paine

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

— Harry Browne

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

— John F. Kennedy

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

— Tim Robbins

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

— Harry Browne

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the…

— Harry S. Truman

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power…

— David Nasaw

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

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East…

— Ayn Rand

In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an…

— Wright Patman

No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils…

— Ross Douthat

The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The…

— Robert Ringer

It has been said that I am not a 'real' Libertarian. A certain faction of the Party has come to believe that…

— Augustus Sol Invictus

A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every…

— William A. Niskanen

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility…

— Frederic Bastiat

“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

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

“In libertarianism the aim isn't judging better from best, it's making sure that there is freedom for the perpetual revolution of ideas.…

— Darrin Moore

In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what…

— Steve Erickson

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

— George Leef

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.…

— John Quincy Adams

Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix…

— Lawrence Fertig

“It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed…

— Ludwig von Mises