Libertarian Quotes - Page 13

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Small government is beautiful

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.

The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Libertarians are liberals who like markets.

One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.