The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict.… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws… — David Brin Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
