Libertarian Quotes - Page 6

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.