Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.


When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

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

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.