Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

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’ . ....

Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society.

Support for the arts — merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

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

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

Even Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” occasionally needs a slap on the wrist.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were...

The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

I love my country, not my government.

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been...

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make...

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.

laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us...

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

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Here beyond men’s judgments all covenants were brittle.

Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual circumstances of the concrete acts. Its cognition is purely formal and...

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don’t have to be, revolutions happen.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

[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.

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

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I...

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...

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don’t need anyone’s permission to be free.

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