Causes Quote by Leonard Read

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common…

— Tom G. Palmer

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians.…

— L. Neil Smith

“And if there’s a libertarian moment in the future it won’t be while moderates are in charge. Because there are three basic tenets to…

— P.J. O'Rourke

“Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.”

— Bryant McGill

“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure…

— Murray Bookchin

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes…

— Peter Thiel

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

— Harry Browne

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

— Pope Benedict XVI

You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts....…

— Herbert Hoover

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

— Lord Hailsham

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary…

— David Hackett Fischer