Libertarian Quotes

If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.

~ A.e. Samaan

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

~ Hannah Arendt

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

~ Stefan Molyneux

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

~ Ayn Rand

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

~ A.e. Samaan

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly speaking, a political one, that is today, it is not concerned with human beings as persons and citizens, but with human bodies. ... In all technologically advanced countries today, whatever political label they give themselves, their policies have, essentially, the same goal: to guarantee to every member of society, as a psychophysical organism, the right to physical and mental health.

~ W.h. Auden

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

~ A.e. Samaan

As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government! The only sure way to prevent the rich from buying unfair government influence is to stop allowing government to use physical force against peaceful people. Whenever government is allowed to favor one group over another, the rich will always win, since they can buy more favors, overtly or covertly, than the poor.

~ Mary J. Ruwart

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

~ H.l. Mencken

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

~ A.e. Samaan

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

~ David D. Friedman

Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality.

~ A.e. Samaan

My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.

~ Lawrence W. Reed

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Regulations in an Idea Economy are restraints on innovation.

~ A.e. Samaan

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual liberty. I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian

~ A.e. Samaan

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

We Libertarians believe in Limited Government precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.

~ A.e. Samaan

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

~ A.e. Samaan

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

~ A.e. Samaan

Funny, I don't particularly care for either laws or order. Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

~ A.e. Samaan

The right to liberty and pursuit of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

~ A.e. Samaan

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. Freedom and liberty no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery.

~ A.e. Samaan

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

~ A.e. Samaan

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

~ A.e. Samaan

There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an Idea Economy. You cannot centrally plan the Idea Economy any more than you can plan fun or spontaneity. Regulations are restraints in an Idea Economy. The entrepreneur is either free to experiment or not.

~ A.e. Samaan

Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

~ A.e. Samaan

Individuals can only volunteer their will. The collective has no rights if not by the use of force and coercion. Collectivism is not a collection of individuals, It is the complete denial of the individual and its rights. Socialism is not cooperation of individuals, it is the denial of individual rights and individual dignity.

~ A.e. Samaan

Fuck socialism!No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!

~ A.e. Samaan

I am not interested in having freedom from burdens. I don't need any authority to free me from responsibility.I am not interested in having freedoms within an authoritarian's parameters. I am only interested in self-determination.I have only respect for liberty as I am a libertarian.

~ A.e. Samaan

We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.

~ A.e. Samaan

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

~ A.e. Samaan

I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in equal opportunity and equality before the law.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

~ Auberon Herbert