Guiding Principles of the Libertarian Party of Ohio

#1 Free and responsible people should be able to control their own lives without interference from the government.

#2 Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

#3 What you own, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one or everyone tends to fall into disrepair.

#4 Government has nothing to give anybody except what it first takes from somebody. Remember, that a government that's big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take away everything you have.

#5 Sound policy requires that we consider long-term effects and all people, not simply short-term effects and a few people.

#6 Liberty makes all the difference in the world.

Credit: Some of the Guiding Principles were inspired by Lawrence Reed of the Mackinac Center www.mackinac.org
Credit: Guiding Principle # 4 was inspired by Barry Goldwater.

National web site: www.lp.org

State of Ohio web site: www.lpo.org