Libertarianism Quotes

141 Libertarianism quotes by 97 unique authors

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 to do so,… — 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 suicide. — John Adams
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical… — Allan Bloom
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family… — Harry Browne
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a… — Courtney Love
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea… — Nat Hentoff
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a… — David Bergland
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many… — P.J. O'Rourke
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern… — Karl Hess
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as… — Unknown Author
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism,… — Michael Lind
No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most… — Ross Douthat
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice… — Robert Anton Wilson
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. — Ronald Reagan
Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men… — R.J. Rushdoony
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices… — Karl Hess

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