Tom G. Palmer Quotes

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

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.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

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.

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

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm—as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

The individual is greater than the state.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

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.

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

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

A man is born free.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

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

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.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.