Libertarian quotes, ideas and principles.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
– Ayn Rand

“Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can’t violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.”
– John McAfee

“Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.”
– Tom G. Palmer

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”
– H.L Mencken

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
– Milton Friedman

“Libertarianism is the philosophy which says that you can run your life better than the government can, and you have the right to be left alone in order to do it.”
– Anonymous

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
- George Orwell

“The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.”
- A.E. Samaan

“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 himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.”
- Ludwig von Mises

“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.”
- Stefan Molyneux

“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.”
- Stefan Molyneux

“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
- A.E. Samaan

“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”
- Murray N. Rothbard

“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”
- Walter E. Williams

The most dangerous thing you can do with marijuana. Get caught with it.
-Willie Nelson.

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
― Robert Frost