Quotes on Libertarian

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.