Attitude Quote by Murray Rothbard

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public.…

— Murray Rothbard

I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people and where…

— Murray Bookchin

If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to compel them…

— Murray Bookchin

I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.

— Todd Young

Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its…

— Anonymous

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the…

— Harry Browne

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best…

— Richard Brookhiser

Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic,…

— Murray Rothbard

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence…

— S.M. Stirling

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live…

— Gary Johnson

In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular…

— Murray Rothbard

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

— Edward Abbey