Libertarian Quotes - Page 2

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

There's never been a good government.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.