Best Libertarian Wisdom
562 Libertarian quotes by 298 unique authors
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what…
— David Brin
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The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always…
— John Quiggin
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At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not…
— Tom G. Palmer
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was…
— Richard Posner
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One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly…
— George Carlin
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But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't…
— Paul Samuelson
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I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father…
— Unknown Author
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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot
— Ron Paul
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They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.
— Ron Paul
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It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to…
— Ron Paul
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The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.
— Murray Rothbard
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We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow,…
— Henry George
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To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.
— Peter Thomas Bauer
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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the…
— William O. Douglas
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A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot…
— George Gilder
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No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee…
— Murray Rothbard
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Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.
— Kurt Schmoke
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Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest…
— Ernest Van den Haag
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