“The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.” PeopleIndividualLibertyLibertarianLibertarianismGreat Libertarian Author:Alexander Herzen
“The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” PeopleWholeIndividualRightsArmsGunConstitutionBillsMajorityLibertarianCivil RightsAmendmentsLibertarianismDeclarationFreedom And LibertySecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyProperty RightsLimited GovernmentBill Of RightsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsIndividual LibertyGun RightsIndividual RightsRights And FreedomsFounding Fathers GunConstitutional RightsHandguns2 AmendmentUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers Second AmendmentLimiting FreedomAmendment 1Constitutional GovernmentUnalienable Rights Author:Albert Gallatin
“Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.” PeopleSelfCoursesIndividualWishRightsEffectsAgreeFundamentalsPropertyLibertarianOwnersOwnershipIdenticalProperty RightsSelf OwnershipOwnership And Control Author:L. Neil Smith
“If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.” PeopleIfsReasonUsedIndividualCausesBrainHalfLibertyClaimsLibertarianSabotageIndividual Liberty Author:L. Neil Smith
“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.” FirstsIndividualIdealsSlaveryLibertarianPassagesIsolatedRelevance Author:Bernard Bailyn
“I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.” KnowsGovernmentIndividualLibertarianIndividual Freedom Author:Howard Stern