Best 728 quotes in «libertarian quotes» category

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.