Best Libertarianism Quotes
141 Libertarianism quotes by 97 unique authors
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My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.
— Penn Jillette
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Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass…
— Thomas Woods
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Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: Don’t strike first, don’t steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently fail to live…
— Mary Ruwart
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Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it…
— Michael Lind
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A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
— Orrin Woodward
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In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various…
— Peter York
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The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
— David Boaz
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
— Milton Friedman
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
— Milton Friedman
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
— Milton Friedman
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of…
— Milton Friedman
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
— Milton Friedman
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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the…
— Milton Friedman
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
— Charles de Gaulle
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
— Samuel Gompers
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their…
— James F. Cooper
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You can only be free if I am free.
— Clarence Darrow
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call…
— Philip K. Dick
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
— William O. Douglas
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
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