Libertarian Quotes

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

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.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

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

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

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

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

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

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

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.

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

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

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

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.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

I can spend your money better than you can.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

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

Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

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.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

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

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.