Libertarian Quotes - Page 14

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.