Quotes on Libertarianism

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.

War is the Health of the State.

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.

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

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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.

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.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?