"Libertarian" Quotes . Top 25 Short Quotes About "Libertarian"

"The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention."

--- A. V. Dicey

#Effects #Sight #Beneficial

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#People #Right To Bear Arms #Us Constitution

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Peace #Secession #People

"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Discouraging #Libertarian #Thrift

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Security #Discouraging #Libertarian

"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Mere #Might #Justify

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Education #Libertarian #Generations

"A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Government Politics #Marijuana #Libertarian

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Reason #Government Politics #Marijuana

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Economy #Libertarian #Example

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Discouraging #Destroying #Libertarian

"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Become Rich #Libertarian #May

"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Happy Labor Day #Desirable #Libertarian

"No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Mere #Secession #Libertarian

"I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Please #Libertarian #Interfere

"Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!"

--- Adam Savage

#Libertarian #Bumper #Law

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

--- Adam Smith

#Brewers #Libertarian #Selfish Interest

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

--- Adam Smith

#Guilty #Cruelty #Libertarian

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'"

--- Adam Smith

#Libertarian #Enjoy #Riches

"There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

--- Adam Smith

#People #Libertarian #Libertarianism

"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."

--- Adam Smith

#Libertarian #Wealth Of Nations #Citizens

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

--- Adam Smith

#Security #Reality #Economy

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens."

--- Adam Smith

#Brewers #Libertarian #Wealth Of Nations

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

--- Adam Smith

#Peace #Justice #Tolerable

"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."

--- Adam Smith

#People #Economy #Libertarian

25 "Libertarian" Quotes