Quotes on Libertarian

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

An armed society is a polite society.

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

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

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

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

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.