Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Berkeley Breathed

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Norman Vincent Peale

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Harry Hopkins

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Jeff Sessions

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

Graham Greene

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Murray Rothbard

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Milton Friedman

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.

H. L. Mencken

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Harry Browne

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Karl Popper

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.

Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

John Stossel

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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.

Max Stirner

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Penn Jillette

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

Penn Jillette

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.