Quotes on Libertarian

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.