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Libertarian Quotes by Murray Rothbard
- The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in…
- No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such…
- The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.
- 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…
- 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…
- We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we…
- The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill,…
- The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he…
- After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from…
- Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All…
- If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and…
- It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a…
More Libertarian Quotes
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat