Libertarian Quotes
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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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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
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I am a socially liberal libertarian who is not for open borders.
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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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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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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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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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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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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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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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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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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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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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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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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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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'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not 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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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.
