Best 728 quotes in «libertarian quotes» category

For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

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

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

He who controls the past controls the future.

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

I am a limited-government libertarian.

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 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 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 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 can spend your money better than you can.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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