Libertarian Quotes · Page 50

“Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?”

— Stefan Molyneux

“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.”

— J.S.B. Morse

At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was…

— Gary Johnson

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

— P. J. O'Rourke

But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the…

— Dave Barry

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

— John Pugsley

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult…

— Paul Samuelson

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of…

— Charles Dickens

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the…

— Michael Shermer

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

— Jeff Sessions

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

— William S. Burroughs

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee

— Anonymous

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

— Winston Churchill

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special…

— H. L. Mencken

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government,…

— Leonard E. Read

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

— Joseph Sobran

He who controls the past controls the future.

— Laozi

If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles…

— William J. Murray

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and…

— Rudolph Rummel

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning…

— Anonymous

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

— William Safire

But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these…

— Gary Oldman