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 MisesTag: libertarian
MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace...Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions...When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful.
Leonard Edward ReadTag: libertarian
The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.
Jeffrey TuckerTag: libertarian tucker mises-institute
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail BakuninTag: politics lenin marx anarchism socialism marxism libertarian libertarianism anarchist communism-patriotism-inspiration chomsky leninism marxist libertarian-socialism state-socialism
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
Mikhail BakuninTag: liberty freedom socialism libertarian libertarian-socialism
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed. I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.
Leonard Edward ReadTag: inspirational politics capitalism economics profound libertarian capitalist
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
Ronald ReaganTag: libertarian conservative
People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.
Hany GhorabaTag: liberty freedom libertarian libertarianism
Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.
Brooke BidaTag: anarchy government libertarian
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
David WelchTag: politics libertarian conservative
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