Libertarian Quotes - Page 10

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

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.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

I can spend your money better than you can.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.