Quotes on Great Libertarian

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

War is the Health of the State.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.