Quotes on Libertarian

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

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

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.