I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn’t need a tax after that.
When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
If we really want liberty – if we really want liberty – then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
War doesn’t need more participants. It needs fewer participants.
The government never does anything successfully.
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
Communities don’t have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.
Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.
The Constitution: it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.
Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.
The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.
Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!
If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.
Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation’s guarantee of religious freedom.
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.