Libertarianism Quotes - Page 9

• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Mean, Independent

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• War is the Health of the State.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Liberty, Libertarian

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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• The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Men, Diversity

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.265, Best Books on

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• Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

  William J. Clinton

  Rights, Government, People

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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Indulge In, Luxury, Enlightenment

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• Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Liberty, Libertarian, Individualism

  "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

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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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• 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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• The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Libertarian, Economic

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• Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, East Berlin, Goal

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.126, Penguin

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• Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

  Milton Friedman

  Trying, Liberty, Triumph

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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  The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Essentials, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Two, Liberty

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.28, Hoover Press

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• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Voting, Promise

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• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

  James Bovard

  Law, America, Liberty

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, St. Martin's Griffin

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• War is just one more big government program.

  Joseph Sobran

  War, Government, Liberty

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