Best Libertarian Proverbs
562 Libertarian quotes by 298 unique authors
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A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
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Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society.…
— Walter E. Williams
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
— William Penn
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Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing…
— Deroy Murdock
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In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.
— Stefan Molyneux
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War is organized murder, and nothing else.
— Harry Patch
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The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
— Hugh Kingsmill
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Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
— H. L. Mencken
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I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in…
— Thomas Sowell
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I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically…
— Thomas Sowell
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If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
— Thomas Sowell
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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
— Thomas Sowell
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People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures…
— Thomas Sowell
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Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.
— Stefan Molyneux
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Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions…
— Frank Chodorov
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Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the…
— John Hospers
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain…
— Karl Popper
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I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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