Best Libertarian Qoutes
562 Libertarian quotes by 298 unique authors
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Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.
— Max Stirner
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The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted…
— Daniel Quinn
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the…
— Elinor Ostrom
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Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We…
— Murray Rothbard
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By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.
— William J. Clinton
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There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down…
— Gerald Kersh
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
— Plato
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Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'
— Unknown Author
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Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is…
— Unknown Author
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No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if…
— Susan Abulhawa
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Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way…
— John Perry Barlow
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But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going…
— Justin Amash
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I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it…
— Rick Santorum
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By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist…
— Unknown Author
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