John Mackey Quotes

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

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.

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.

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

It has been said that I am not a 'real' Libertarian. A certain faction of the Party has come to believe that the writings of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman are the holy texts of Libertarianism, and I disagree. I believe that the Libertarian movement is and should be more encompassing than the narrow-minded advocacy of economic anarchy.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

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

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

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

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

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

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.