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• Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

  John Locke

  Freedom, War, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

  John Adams

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Majority

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Liberty, Arbitrary

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.69, Knopf

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Men, Strong Arms

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• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Liberty, Basic Human Rights, Damn

  "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech delivered for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• The great object is that every man be armed.

  Patrick Henry

  Father, Gun, Men

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Men, Names

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• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature, Sin

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Liberty, Would Be

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Humor, Government

  Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) p. 51

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• I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Hate, Angel

  "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.

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• But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Views, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Freedom, Law, Forever

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• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Liberty, Socialism

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• See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Government, Hands

  "American Unmoved by Deficit - Except in Altoona". The Free Lance-Star Column, news.google.com. February 29, 1992.

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• The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Men, Diversity

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.265, Best Books on

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• A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

  Hugo Black

  Government, Religion, Liberty

  Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

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

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