Quotes on Libertarian

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

These are the times that try men's souls.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.