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Libertarian Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- That government is best which governs least.
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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