Libertarian Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

  Gore Vidal

  Average, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage

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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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• When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

  George Pataki

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Government

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• Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Slavery

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Liberty, Politics, Bureaucracy

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• The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Competition, Desire, Liberty

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.225, Basic Books

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

  Chuck Norris

  Graduation, Art, Children

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• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

  Irving Kristol

  Country, Nice, People

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Bites

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Liberty, Vietnam

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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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• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Suffering, Liberty

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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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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Injustice, Commit

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• When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Government, People

  Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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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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• The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mistress, Limits, Taxes

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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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• Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

  Richard Cobden

  Liberty, Looks, Politician

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• The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, States, Leap

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.187, NYU Press

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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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• Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophical, Desire, Liberty

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

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