Libertarian Quotes

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

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

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

Statism ends with an eye roll.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

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

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

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

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

People fear witches, and burn women.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

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.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.