Libertarian Party quotes
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"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."
"Everything government touches turns to crap."
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
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"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
"Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots."
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society."
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free."
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."
"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
"Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government."
"Truth and news are not the same thing."
"There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."
"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."
"It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part."
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly."
