Quotes on Libertarian Party

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

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

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

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

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.