Libertarian Quotes - Page 12

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.