John Stossel Quotes

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

American ideology is anti government. There is a streak of libertarianism on both conservatives and liberals.

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages. You can disagree with them, or with Coolidge or Reagan or Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman or George Will, but to dismiss them as nothing more than mouthpieces of the wealthy and big business is to indulge in [a] sort of anti-intellectualism…

I eat and breathe small government and freedom.

Libertarianism is on its way!

I am more of a constitutionalist libertarian.

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.