Libertarian Quotes - Page 40

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  It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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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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• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Government

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.92, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Thinking, Self

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Silly, Humor, Men

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

  George Will

  Political, Liberty, Congress

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• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spirituality, Sin, Experiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.488, Library of America

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• A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

  Herbert Spencer

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Herbert Spencer (1978). “The Principles of Ethics”

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• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, War, Heart

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

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• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Education, Historical, Liberty

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Doe, Unemployment

  "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto".

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• I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

  Ward Churchill

  Rights, Talking, Republican

  Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,

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• No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Drunk, Politics

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• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sheep, Government, Political

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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