Quotes on Libertarian Party

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

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

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.