Quotes on Libertarian

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

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

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.