Libertarian Quotes

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

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’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

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

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

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

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

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

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

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.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

[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.

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

There will be a libertarian president

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

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

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.