Libertarianism Quotes - Page 11

• There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  Adam Smith

  Art, Government, People

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776)

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• I can spend your money better than you can.

  William J. Clinton

  Liberty, Libertarian, Better Than You

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• You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Hate, Love You

  "The Clinton presidency - in quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. January 15, 2001.

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• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

  Frank Chodorov

  Liberty, Libertarian, Cases

  Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Men, Abuse

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

  John Adams

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Majority

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• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Law, Effort

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• The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

  William Pitt

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  Speech in House of Commons, ca. March 1763 See Coke 1; Coke 8; Otis 2

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• Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

  Howard W. Koch

  Mean, Liberty, Libertarian

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• If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

  Sting

  Children, Rain, Mean

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 14 Apr.

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• Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Enemy

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 4, 2008.

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• Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Order, Liberty

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• The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

  James Dale Davidson

  Political, Soul, Liberty

  "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

  Gore Vidal

  Average, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage

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• The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

  Dennis Hastert

  Organization, Drug, Liberty

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• For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.

  Harry Browne

  Insecure, Political, Promise

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• Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, People, Wish

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Liberty, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cheer, Leader

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Want

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• Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Free Education, Lunch

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• A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Principles, Coercion

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• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Campaigns, Libertarian

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 151), 2004.

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• Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Principles

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• To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

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