Dave Rubin Quotes

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

What makes America unique in the world is the idea of the self-directed life.

At first man was enslaved by the gods, but he broke their chains… Then he was enslaved by the kings, but he broke their chains… He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race, but he broke their chains... He declared to all his brothers that man has rights that neither god or king nor other men can take away from him no matter what their number. For his is the right of man. And there is no right on earth above this right

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

The yearning for freedom of expression is universal. There is nothing uniquely American about it at all.

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.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.