Libertarian Quotes
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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
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I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.
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To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.
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If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
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I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
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I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.
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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.
