Libertarian Quotes - Page 18

• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

  Chuck Norris

  Graduation, Art, Children

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• The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Liberty, Defense

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• The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Heart, Soul, Conservatism

  Reason magazine, July 1, 1975.

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• Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Progress, Capitalism, Productions

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Method, Aim

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Money, Income, Trouble

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Injustice, Commit

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• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Helping, Bigs

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Prosperity, Trouble

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Arms, Bears

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• Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?

  L. Neil Smith

  Thug, Two, Iron

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

  William E. Simon

  Liberty, Economic, Contradiction

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• In government, the scum rises to the top.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Scum

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• Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

  Albert Einstein

  Academic Life, Goal, Innovation

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• A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

  Alex Flinn

  Shoes, Psychology, Individuality

  Alex Flinn (2011). “Cloaked”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Alexander Herzen

  People, Liberty, Individual

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• It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Rights, People, Liberty

  "Do Our Rights Come From The Constitution?". www.fff.org. June 1, 1999.

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• The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

  Kin Hubbard

  Flags, Statesmen, Amount

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• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Issues

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Police, Liberty

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