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Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

He who controls the past controls the future.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I can spend your money better than you can.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

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.