Libertarian Quotes - Page 5

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

You can only be free if I am free.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.