Libertarianism Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• [Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Differences, People, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I can spend your money better than you can.

  William J. Clinton

  Liberty, Libertarian, Better Than You

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• Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

  James J. Martin

  Player, Games, Liberty

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• I say one evil empire down...one to go.

  Michael Moore

  Evil, Liberty, Politics

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• It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Religious, Government, Liberty

  Robert Morrison MacIver (1965). “The Web of Government”

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• The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Liberty, Degrees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.39, Penguin

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• It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.127, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Libertarian, States

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.187, NYU Press

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• This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Independent, Men, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.168, VM eBooks

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• The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Political, Police

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Rights, Government, Liberty

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• If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Liberty, World

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• The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Competition, Desire, Liberty

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.225, Basic Books

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