Libertarian Quotes

The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

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.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

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

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

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

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

Libertarians are liberals who like markets.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.

There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.