Quotes on Libertarian

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

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.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.