Andrew Breitbart Quotes

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

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

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

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

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

The real needs of the people ought never give way to the imaginary wants of the state.

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

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

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.