Libertarian Party Quotes

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

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

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

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.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

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

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

That government is best which governs least.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.