Libertarian Quotes - Page 32

• We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Liberty, Taxes, Libertarianism

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• Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

  Gary North

  Majority Vote, Liberty, Stealing

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• Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Magic, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.

  Pat Buchanan

  Wall, Stupid, Winning

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Once Upon A Time, Liberty

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• A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “Political and moral dimensions”, p.435, Transaction Publishers

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• A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government Debt, Liberty, Income

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• Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Taken, Liberty, Crowds

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• The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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• Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Loss, Mind, Liberty

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• Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Law, Liberty, Care

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• Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

  Dan Quayle

  America, Healthy, Liberty

  "Address by Quayle On Justice Proposals Irks Bar Association". Vice President Dan Quayle's address to the American Bar Association, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 1991.

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• Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Government, Two

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• Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Men, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.82, Penguin

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• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

  Joseph Sobran

  Giving, Presidential, Liberty

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• Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Liberty, Terrorism

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• If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Law, Drug

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• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  Indulge In, Liberty, Approval

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Gun

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

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• Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Order, Liberty

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Needs, Trade

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