Freedom

"To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum."

"The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth."

"War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security."

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

"In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom."

"Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free."

"Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'."

"There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth"

"Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop."

"Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded."

"A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law."

"To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means."

"The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation."

"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 the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang."

"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."

"My liberty depends on you being free, too."

"I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause."

"...the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom: for liberty is, to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, a liberty for every man to do what he lists: (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him?) but a liberty to dispose, and order as he lists, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own."

"The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket."