Libertarianism Quotes - Page 3

• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gun, Law

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• I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

  Billie Holiday

  Hurt, Mind Your Own Business, Liberty

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• The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

  George Orwell

  Real, Lefties, Division

  George Orwell's letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (December 4, 1948), as quoted in Ian Hunter "Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life", 1980.

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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Liberty, Arbitrary

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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, And Love, Individual Morality

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• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom, Voice, Libertarian Party

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 324), 1891.

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• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sake, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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  Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Blessed, Government

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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  The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”

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• Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

  Joseph Sobran

  Believe, Democracies Have, Libertarian Party

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• The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

  Frank Chodorov

  Government, Giving, Liberty

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• Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.

  Leonard Read

  Philosophy, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "How to Advance Liberty" by Leonard Read, mises.org. August 03, 2011.

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• I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The power to tax is the power to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Inspirational, Taxation, Libertarian

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.338, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

  Joseph Sobran

  Funny, Government, Political

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• It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Libertarian Party, Important

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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  Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

  Pericles

  Inspirational, Trust, Witty

  "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.

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• The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.27, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

  Tom C. Clark

  Government, Law, Libertarian Party

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• I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Thinking, People, Liberty

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• Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Freedom, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

  Voltaire

  Cutting, Land, Two

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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