All state Quote by Murray Rothbard

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band,…

— Murray Rothbard

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 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

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

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

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

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug…

— Camille Paglia

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people…

— Jonah Goldberg

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or…

— L. Neil Smith

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and…

— Jacob Weisberg

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for…

— L. Neil Smith