As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their
own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous
world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom
can peace and prosperity be realized.
Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and
welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are
free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any
authoritarian power.
In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands
derived from those principles.
These specific policies are not our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set
free in our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands.