Libertarianism Quotes
141 Libertarianism quotes by 97 unique authors
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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
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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
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
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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
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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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
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
— Ronald Reagan
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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
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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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