Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berkeley Breathed

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

Al Seckel

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

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.

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.

Clint Eastwood

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

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.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

H. L. Mencken

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

Joseph Sobran

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

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.

Harry Hopkins

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

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

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.

Felix Frankfurter

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

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.

Kin Hubbard

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

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.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Tom Clancy

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

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.

John Stossel

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

John Adams

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

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.

Norman Vincent Peale

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