Gary Johnson Quotes

Prohibition is a deathblow to the liberty of the individual …

I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

Is there anything in the existing condition that makes the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy?... Are we going to take up the question of what a man shall eat and what a man shall drink, and put him under severe penalties if he is eating or drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories—with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe—but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.