Quotes by Libertarian Party You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. Abraham Lincoln libertarian-party liberty politics The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. Ayn Rand libertarian-party liberty men It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. Benjamin Franklin libertarian-party government people Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis libertarian-party democracies-have tyrants It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C. S. Lewis libertarian-party democracies-have government It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. Calvin Coolidge libertarian-party government important Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy libertarian-party liberty teaching Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is. Charley Reese libertarian-party government knowing The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions Daniel Webster libertarian-party freedom gun When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Edith Hamilton libertarian-party freedom responsibility In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Edward Gibbon libertarian-party responsibility wisdom The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. Eleanor Roosevelt libertarian-party freedom war The Libertarian Party is a shameful party Dennis Prager libertarian-party libertarian party The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it. Felix Frankfurter libertarian-party constitution liberty Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain Frederic Bastiat libertarian-party spring ideas The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Friedrich Schiller libertarian-party freedom voice You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants. Harry Browne libertarian-party government giving Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau libertarian-party freedom historical It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Henry George libertarian-party religious men If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. Jacob G. Hornberger libertarianism libertarian-party liberty 123»