Libertarian Quotes · Page 28

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

— F. Lee Bailey

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

— Felix Morley

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

— Benjamin Barber

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing…

— Voltaire

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

— Michel de Montaigne

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want…

— Thomas Sowell

The concept of throwing away votes is a lie. It only becomes true if you get enough people to believe it and…

— Rock Cowles

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them…

— Marilyn Ferguson

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well…

— Ben Moreell

Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree…

— Robert Anton Wilson

It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to…

— Ron Paul

“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be…

— Michael Shermer

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether…

— Naomi Wolf

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society…

— Thomas Szasz

The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force.…

— Stephan Kinsella

I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being…

— Ralph Nader

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

— Harry Browne

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes,…

— Eugene Fama

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

— Felix Morley

“If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your…

— A.E. Samaan

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

— Michael Badnarik

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.

— Eva Moskowitz

I hate the whole Liberal mindset. It makes me nauseous and fearful for my child. I have nightmares about her being trampled…

— Rock Cowles

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

— John Lydon

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and…

— Jeff Baxter

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran

I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are…

— Peter McWilliams

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Glenn Reynolds

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;…

— Learned Hand

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.”

— A.E. Samaan

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is…

— Rudolph Rummel

“Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.”

— Eduard Limonov

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they…

— Voltaire

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

— Frederic Bastiat

The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute…

— Donald Luskin

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

— Andrew Joseph Galambos