Best Libertarian Quotes

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

That government is best which governs least.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

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

In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

It’s no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored? Maybe. Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger … corporation? Whatever. By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons.

Gun Control isn’t about guns. It’s about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul’s libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama’s view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton’s view of foreign policy.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They’ll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn’t just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that’s one thing the government schools do very well.