I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. only a Libertarian is going to set you free.
The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can’t. But you can choose for yourself...
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don’t understand the present – and there isn’t even any certainty about the past.
No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually – if not by today’s politicians, then by their successors.
The problem with politics isn’t the money; it’s the power.
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives – and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn’t already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn’t much matter who controls it, because it can’t do you much harm.
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.
America rules the world – by force.
When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you’ll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.
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.
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people’s money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.