Libertarian Quotes - Page 23

• Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Power, Guy

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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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• Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

  Clarence Thomas

  Respect, Government, Law

  Concurring in Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, America, Liberty

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.15

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• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  Albert Einstein

  Deception, Liberty, Poison

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Liberty, Unemployment

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• Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

  Milton Friedman

  Support, Parent, Liberty

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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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 welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

  Thomas Sowell

  Games, People, Giving

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• There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Thinking, People, Liberty

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• Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Liberty, Causes

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• When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

  Jack Kemp

  Government, Liberty, Blame

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• Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Issues, Choices

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• The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Economic, Program

  "The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism".

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• It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

  Harry Browne

  Compassion, Giving, Liberty

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• A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

  Ayn Rand

  Effort, Liberty, Together

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• Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, America, Russia

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.143, Penguin

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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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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Liberty, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

  Herbert Spencer

  Liberty, Benefits, Members

  "The Principles of Sociology".

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• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Army, House

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• People fear witches, and burn women.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  People, Liberty, Witch

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• I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Home, Government

  "The Real Thomas Jefferson".

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