Libertarianism Quotes - Page 8

• The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Liberty, Defense

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• I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

  John Pugsley

  Thug, Ideas, Liberty

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• My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Whole, Knows

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• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  Walter Block

  Philosophy, Thinking, Unique

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• In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.

  Steve Erickson

  Kids, Men, Thinking

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• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Use, Coercion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Magic, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Everything government touches turns to crap.

  Ringo Starr

  Libertarian Party, Government, Liberty

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• The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Silly, Essence, Liberty

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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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• People fear witches, and burn women.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1978). “The old régime and the French Revolution”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

  William O. Douglas

  Liberty, Citizens, Libertarian

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• He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

  Epictetus

  Fall, Wish, Desire

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

  Emma Goldman

  Reality, Liberty, Doe

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

  John Hay

  Tyrants, Evil, Liberty

  John Hay (1871). “Castilian Days”, p.28

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• There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

  Eric Hoffer

  Liberty, Libertarian, Failing

  "The Ordeal of Change". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1963.

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• There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Freedom, Loss, Long

  The New York Times, September 26, 1982.

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• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

  Wendell Phillips

  Freedom, Jealous, People

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

  Henry Steele Commager

  America, Liberty, Libertarian

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

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• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Walter Lippmann (1934). “The method of freedom”

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