Libertarian Party Quotes

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.