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  • Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

    Fun   Liberty   Want  
  • The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  • If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

  • Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  • Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

  • Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

  • 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.

    Art   Liberty   Citizens  
    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield
  • There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

  • The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.

    "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". Judicial opinion, 1943.
  • The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

    "The Principles of Sociology".
  • Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

    "Q&A: Neil Peart On Rush's New LP and Being a 'Bleeding Heart Libertarian'". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. June 12, 2012.
  • Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

    Peace   War   4th Of July  
    George Washington (1783). “A circular Letter ... to ... W. Greene, Governor ... of Rhode Island”, p.11
  • The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.

    Son   Thinking   Wish  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.512
  • Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

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

  • In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

    Power   Men   Liberty  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

  • The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

  • When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216
  • I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

    Believe   Men   Rights  
    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • I can spend your money better than you can.

  • We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights, and provide for certain common needs ... A state on the other hand, is a coercive organization asserting or enjoying a monopoly over the use of physical force in some geographic area and exercising power over its subjects.

    David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
  • I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

  • If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

  • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

    War   Ambition   Color  
    Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.
  • He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

    Fall   Liberty   May  
    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc
  • The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.92, Penguin
  • Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

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