#libertarian

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#freedom #gold #libertarianism #freedom

[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. ↗

— David Graeber

#economics #libertarianism #markets #politics #freedom

There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom. ↗

— Michel Templet

#philosophy #politics #freedom

As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people obey the orders of the government, whether they like it or not. As far as the government’s jurisdiction extends, there is coercion, not freedom. Government is a necessary institution, the means to make the social system of cooperation work smoothly without being disturbed by violent acts on the part of gangsters whether of domestic or of foreign origin. Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible. But it is the opposite of liberty. It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#freedom

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

— Hany Ghoraba

#libertarian #libertarianism #liberty #freedom

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#libertarian #liberty #power #community

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. ↗

— Frédéric Bastiat

#france #government #history #liberal #libertarian

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

#individualism #libertarianism #objectivism #selfishness #selfishness

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

— Orrin Woodward

#freedom #libertarianism #liberty #freedom