Quotes and Sayings About Libertarian
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
-- Adam Smith -
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
-- Al Seckel -
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
-- Alexander Haig -
Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
-- Amartya Sen -
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
-- Benjamin Barber -
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.
-- Big Boi -
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
-- Bob Black -
In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.
-- Bryan Caplan -
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
-- Charles Dickens -
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
-- Clarence Thomas -
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.
-- Clint Eastwood -
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone
-- Clint Eastwood -
The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.
-- Colin Ward -
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
-- David D. Aitken -
Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.
-- David D. Aitken -
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
-- David Hare -
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.
-- David Stove -
Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'
-- Dennis Prager -
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
-- Dick Armey -
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.
-- Donald Livingston
