Libertarian Quotes · Page 14

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the…

— Amartya Sen

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the…

— H. L. Mencken

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate…

— Ilana Mercer

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

— Felix Morley

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's…

— Lindsey Graham

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at…

— Paul Krugman

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter…

— Tom C. Clark

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the…

— Walter E. Williams

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes…

— John Hospers

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected…

— Leo Tolstoy

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become…

— Theodore J. Forstmann

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in…

— Albert Einstein

The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

— Milton Friedman

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

— Penn Jillette

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care…

— Milton Friedman

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often,…

— Michael Shermer

If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures…

— Murray Bookchin

I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain…

— Dave Barry

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable…

— William Henry Chamberlin

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