Libertarian Quotes - Page 39

• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Mistake, Believe, People

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• It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

  Steven T. Byington

  Country, Government, Support

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• The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

  George Washington

  Political, Liberty, Connections

  George Washington, J. M. Williams (1800). “Washington's political legacies: To which is annexed an appendix, containing an account of his illness, death, and the national tributes of respect paid to his memory, with a biographical outline of his life and character”, p.90

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• To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Debt, Independence, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.242, Hackett Publishing

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

  Andre Marrou

  Fun, Liberty, Want

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• Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Lying, Religion

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Government, Self

  "Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

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• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Hope, Peace

  Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

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• I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Independent, Men, Law

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.226, Humanix Books

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• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  H. L. Mencken

  Leadership, Men, Rights

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.34, Knopf

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• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Campaigns, Republican

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 151), 2004.

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• The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

  Frank Chodorov

  Political, Liberty, World

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.54, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Truth and news are not the same thing.

  Katharine Graham

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, News

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• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Social Unrest

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• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Mistake, Should Have, Political

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• Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.

  Jello Biafra

  Order, America, Going Away

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• When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

  Laozi

  People, Liberty, Hungry

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• When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

  Marilyn French

  Black, Progress, Liberty

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

  Harry Browne

  Responsibility, Issues, Government

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• America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

  Henry Steele Commager

  America, Liberty, Born

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Long, People, Giving

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  Herbert Spencer

  Rights, Liberty, Minorities

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.9, The Floating Press

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