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Libertarian Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
- Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
- Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
- What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
More Libertarian Quotes
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- 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
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat