Libertarian Quotes - Page 17

• Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

  Gary North

  Philosophy, Liberty, Way

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• The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!

  Jay Leno

  People, Political, Promise

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• As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Smart, Thinking, Two

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• Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Liberty, Lessons

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• Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Void

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.228, Penguin

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• Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Government, Liberty

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• At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Liberty, Done, Judgment

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, Liberty

  James Madison's letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831.

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• The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Michael Badnarik

  Law, Ideas, Liberty

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• We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Liberty, Facts

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• When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Liberty, Dentistry

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• Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

  Frank Chodorov

  People, Liberty, Guarantees

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.88, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Home, Should Have, Broken

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Mom, Mother, Sweet

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.557, e-artnow

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• He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Office, Substance

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Party, Brain

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• How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Liberty

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.

  Victor C. Ferkiss

  Struggle, Mean, Loss

  Victor C. Ferkiss (1969). “Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality”

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• In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

  Austin O'Malley

  Sheep, Liberty, Skins

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• The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Urban Renewal, Government, Liberty

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• Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

  Tim Barber

  Dog, Giving, Political

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• Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

  S. Azmat Hassan

  Liberty, Poverty, Causes

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• There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Speaking Up, Bystanders, Nwo

  "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,

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