Category: Libertarianism

As long as I am an America citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

E. Lovejoy

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who puts all the guns and all of the decision-making in the hands of the central government and then says “Limit Yourself”; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

Rothbard

What we have to deal with in the case of “social justice” is simply a quasireligious superstition of the kind which we should respectfully leave in peace so long as it merely makes those happy who hold it, but which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men.

F.A. Hayek
H/t reader David

They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!

Ludwig Von Mises

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

Dr. Walter Williams

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig Von Mises

Does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid was legal; the Nazi’s Nuremberg laws were legal; the Stalinist and Maoist purges were legal. The fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality alone cannot be the guide for moral people.

Dr. Walter Williams