There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed. " If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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.
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian. ' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
Small government is beautiful
I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.
People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.
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.