Libertarian Quotes - Page 9

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.