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Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
— John Stossel
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
— A.E. Samaan
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Small government is beautiful
— Carla Howell
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
— Tim Robbins
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
— George Soros
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
— Brooke Bida
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
— Baruch Spinoza
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.
— Clint Eastwood
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
— John Mackey
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
— Lewis Goldberg
Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.
— Emma Goldman
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
— Leonard Bernstein
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
— George Santayana
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
— Henry Steele Commager
Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'
— Dennis Prager
I say one evil empire down ... one to go.
— Michael Moore
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
— Murray Rothbard
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
— Thomas Jefferson
When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.
— J.S.B. Morse
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
— A.E. Samaan
Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
— Walter E. Williams
When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.
— Marshall Fritz
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
— David H. Koch
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
— A.E. Samaan
There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
— Dennis Prager
I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
— Rick Santorum
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
— Alexander Berkman
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
— Michel De Montaigne
"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?
— Mike Gunn
INDECISION NOW!' isn't a battle cry that's going to rouse anybody's blood. But I sometimes wonder if it isn't the sanest one.
— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
I can spend your money better than you can.
— William J. Clinton
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.
— Kurt Russell
If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.
— Walter E. Williams
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
— Charles Kennedy
The era of big government is over.
— William J. Clinton
It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.
— Michel Templet
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.
— Patri Friedman
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.
— Brooke Bida
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
— Jeff Sessions
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
— Tom Robbins
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
— Gustave De Molinari
Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
— Eduard Limonov
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
— A.E. Samaan
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
— Arthur Schnitzler
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
— Gustave De Molinari
But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.
— Paul Samuelson
I am a passionate civil libertarian.
— Ted Cruz
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.
— Richard Cobden
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
— Frederic Bastiat
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.
— Isabel Paterson
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
— Harry Browne
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill