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Libertarian Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
- There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"…
- If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to…
- Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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