Libertarianism Quotes - Page 13

• For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (1993). “Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture”, p.114, South End Press

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• How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Thinking, Liberty, Needs

  "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Liberty, Libertarian, Taxes

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• Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

  Gary North

  Majority Vote, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

  Tom Clancy

  Home, Gun, Law

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

  Confucius

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

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• When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

  Albert J. Nock

  Liberty, May, Libertarian

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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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• 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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• I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Want

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• Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Free Education, Lunch

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• The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 76), 2004.

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• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Campaigns, Libertarian

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

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• Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Principles

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• A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Principles, Coercion

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• Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cheer, Leader

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

  Dennis Hastert

  Organization, Drug, Liberty

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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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