Libertarian Quotes

People and their values are almost infinitely diverse, and people will never agree on many elements of social arrangements that might be subjected to uniform rules of governance. Hence, the greater the scope of strictly individual self-determination, the lesser the scope of governance, and the greater the tolerance with which people live and let live among their fellows, the more peaceful and flourishing society will be

~ Robert Higgs

(A Free Market in Education: The Answer to Prayer, And Other Issues)No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict. The answer involves choice, competition and private alternatives. If you don't like what a business offers, you don't argue endlessly about it; you walk across the street. Why is this principle so complicated for some people?

~ Lawrence W. Reed

All utopias are dystopias. The term dystopia was coined by fools that believed a utopia can be functional.

~ A.e. Samaan

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

~ A.e. Samaan

It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called mass MURDER and not mass MANSLAUGHTER.

~ A.e. Samaan

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

~ A.e. Samaan

To appreciate how income taxation reduces prosperity form what it could be, imagine a 100 percent tax on incomes. We wouldn't expect much prosperity in such a society. People would have no incentive to earn money. They would devote resources to hiding the little they did earn. No investments would be made. No savings would exist to increase living standards. People's activities would be grossly influenced by the tax. If we lower the rate from 100 percent, the principle does not change. . . If you want less of something, tax it.

~ Sheldon Richman

FUCK UNITY!! What a pathetic way of thinking. How arrogant of Progressives to think that my hopes and dreams mirror their hopes and dreams. What an absolute bore.... what an total lack of originality or individuality... I believe in individual liberty. I am an extremist on the topic of individual liberty, precisely because I value original thinking and original accomplishments. Fuck unity of purpose. Fuck collectivism. My life is not your life. I have my own path. Get out of my way.

~ A.e. Samaan

FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty.

~ A.e. Samaan

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

~ A.e. Samaan

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

~ A.e. Samaan

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

~ A.e. Samaan

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

~ A.e. Samaan

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

~ A.e. Samaan

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

~ A.e. Samaan

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

~ A.e. Samaan

Socialism is group-think. How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for group-think??

~ A.e. Samaan

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

~ A.e. Samaan

Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed.

~ A.e. Samaan

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

~ A.e. Samaan

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

~ A.e. Samaan

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

~ A.e. Samaan

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

~ A.e. Samaan

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

~ A.e. Samaan

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

~ A.e. Samaan

The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.

~ A.e. Samaan

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

~ A.e. Samaan

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

~ A.e. Samaan

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

~ A.e. Samaan

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

~ A.e. Samaan

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an Idea Economy which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

~ A.e. Samaan

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy, the clergy of oppression.

~ A.e. Samaan

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

~ A.e. Samaan

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

~ A.e. Samaan

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

~ A.e. Samaan

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

~ A.e. Samaan

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

~ A.e. Samaan

A centrally planned economy by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

~ A.e. Samaan