Libertarianism Quotes - Page 17

• Dependence leads to subservience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Libertarian, Dependence

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

  Jack Kemp

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Political, Liberty, Earth

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Liberty

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• Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

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• He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fall, Liberty, May

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Gun, Safety

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• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

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• 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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• Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Believe, Mean, Liberty

  Viktor E. Frankl (2014). “The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy”, p.46, Penguin

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.

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• As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Play, Feelings, Liberty

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• ... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

  Lewis Goldberg

  Kings, Taken, Liberty

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Men, Abuse

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• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

  Frank Chodorov

  Liberty, Libertarian, Cases

  Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”

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• You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Hate, Love You

  "The Clinton presidency - in quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. January 15, 2001.

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• I can spend your money better than you can.

  William J. Clinton

  Liberty, Libertarian, Better Than You

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• It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Religious, Government, Liberty

  Robert Morrison MacIver (1965). “The Web of Government”

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• The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Liberty, Degrees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.39, Penguin

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• It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.127, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Libertarian, States

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.187, NYU Press

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• No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  America, Rights, Government

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• The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

  Alexander Herzen

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

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• To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

  Liberty, Use, May

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