There’s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you’re doing the right thing, — Stewart Baker Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster 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
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein 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
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
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
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 have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that… — Plato Copy Share Image
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The greatest liberator in all of human history is Moses. So let's say he's a libertarian leader without a doubt. Then there… — Javier Milei 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
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
