Libertarian Quotes

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

I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

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

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

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

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.

It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

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.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

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

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

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.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

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

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

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

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

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