Quotes on Libertarian

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

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

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

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

War is the Health of the State.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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.

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.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.