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141 Libertarianism quotes by 97 unique authors
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
— Jonathan Swift
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
— Henry David Thoreau
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That government is best which governs least.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.…
— Lily Tomlin
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
— George Washington
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Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
— George Will
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In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When…
— Edward Gibbon
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with…
— John Stuart Mill
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
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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"…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
— Edward R. Murrow
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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
— John F. Kennedy
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
— Ronald Reagan
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in…
— Voltaire
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -…
— Patrick Henry
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If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism…
— Ronald Reagan
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift…
— Winston Churchill
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If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
— John Marshall
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
— Calvin Coolidge
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