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Libertarian Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
- No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
- Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
- The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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