Libertarianism Quotes

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

~ A.e. Samaan

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale.

~ Jonah Goldberg

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

~ A.e. Samaan

Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime, theft of individual worth.

~ A.e. Samaan

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.Is it possible that you do not know what a hostage really is — a man imprisoned not because of a crime he has committed, but only because it suits his enemies to exert blackmail on his companions? ... If you admit such methods, one can foresee that one day you will use torture, as was done in the Middle Ages.I hope you will not answer me that Power is for political men a professional duty, and that any attack against that power must be considered as a threat against which one must guard oneself at any price. This opinion is no longer held even by kings... Are you so blinded, so much a prisoner of your own authoritarian ideas, that you do not realise that being at the head of European Communism, you have no right to soil the ideas which you defend by shameful methods ... What future lies in store for Communism when one of its most important defenders tramples in this way every honest feeling?

~ Pyotr Kropotkin

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American Libertarianism. Have these people seriously looked at the problems of the world and thought, 'Hmm, what we need here is a bit more selfishness'? . . . I beg to differ.

~ Iain Banks

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

~ A.e. Samaan

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

~ A.e. Samaan

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

~ Tom Wallace

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

~ A.e. Samaan

Regulated rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.

~ A.e. Samaan

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.

~ David Niose

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

~ Emily Matchar

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under the name of liberalism, I did not indulge in the vain hope that my account would prevent the impending catastrophes to which the policies adopted by the European nations were manifestly leading. All I wanted to achieve was to offer to the small minority of thoughtful people an opportunity to learn something about the aims of classical liberalism and its achievements and thus to pave the way for a resurrection of the spirit of freedom after the coming debacle.

~ Ludwig Von Mises