Frederic Bastiat Quotes

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what they want to do. The all-important thing is that they be free to make that decision and that they do not stand in the way of communities that wish to make other decisions.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.

In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life.

No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.