Libertarian Quotes - Page 4

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.