Murray Rothbard Quotes

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

I am pro-freedom.

Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

The individual is greater than the state.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.