Libertarian Quotes · Page 28

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

— Robert E. Lee

The era of resisting big government is never over.

— Paul Gigot

“One might rejoin that the State, representing as it does the public welfare or the common interest of all, curtails a part…

— Mikhail Bakunin

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

— Charles Kennedy

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…

— Milton Friedman

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Richard Grossman

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

— Harry Browne

“History is the same story with different costumes.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Jim DeMint

Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any…

— Barack Obama

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

— Rudolph Rummel

The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

— John Adams

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

— Glenn Reynolds

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the…

— Frederic Bastiat

How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the…

— Gerald Cohen

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep…

— Harry Browne

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

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

— Drew Carey

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian…

— Penn Jillette

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

— Baruch Spinoza

“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens...

— Charles Tilly