Absolute Freedom Need Not Be Lost As

The Libertarian Creed...offers The Fulfillment Of The Best Of The American Past Along With The Promise Of A Far Better Future. Libertarians Are Squarely In The Great Classical Liberal Tradition That Built The United States And Bestowed On Us The American Heritage Of Individual Liberty, A Peaceful Foreign Policy, Minimal Government, And A Free-market Economy.

The Fundamental Axiom, Then, For The Study Of Man Is The Existence Of Individual Consciousness

What Do Intellectuals And Opinion Makers Get From Big Government? An Increasing Number Of Cushy Jobs In The Bureaucracy, Or In The Government-subsidized Sector, Staffing The Welfare Regulatory State, And Apologizing For Its Policies, As Well As Propagandizing For Them Among The Public. To Put It Bluntly, Intellectuals, Theorists, Pundits, Media Elites, Etc. Get To Live A Life Which They Could Not Attain On The Free Market, But Which They Can Gain At Taxpayer Expense.

While Big-business Leaders And Firms Can Be Highly Productive, Servants Of Consumers In A Free Market Economy, They Are Also All Too Often, Seekers After Subsidies, Contracts, Privileges, Or Cartels Furnished By Big Government. Often, Business Lobbyists And Leaders Are The Sparkplugs For The Statist, Interventionist System.

All Of The Services Commonly Thought To Require The State-from The Coining Of Money To Police Protection To The Development Of Law In Defense Of The Rights Of Person And Property-can Be And Have Been Supplied Far More Efficiently And Certainly More Morally By Private Persons. The State Is In No Sense Required By The Nature Of Man; Quite The Contrary.