Liberty Quotes - Page 10

• I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body.

  Thomas Szasz

  Father, Men, Ideas

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• Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law

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• When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

  Laozi

  People, Libertarian, Hungry

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• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

  Cyril Connolly

  Freedom, Action, Intriguing

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• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Presidential, Political

  1929 Press conference, Mar.

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Government, People, Support

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• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  Andre Breton

  Atheism, Danger, Dangerous

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

  Henry Steele Commager

  America, Libertarian, Born

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

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• [Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Believe, Government, Decision

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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, Doe

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• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  Albert Einstein

  Deception, Poison, Libertarian

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.

  Thomas Naylor

  Military, Responsibility, Government

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• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Nice, People, Political

  United States v. Rabinowitz (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

  Thomas Naylor

  Country, Strong, Military

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• ... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.

  Wally Hickel

  Support, Libertarian, Next

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• In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.

  Richard J. Maybury

  War, School, Government

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• I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

  John Lydon

  Government, Ideas, Dawn

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• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Mistake, Should Have, Political

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

  Russell B. Long

  Humorous, Mean, Tree

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• When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

  Marilyn French

  Black, Progress, Libertarian

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  Ouida

  Law, Libertarian, Crime

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sarcastic, Cake, Political

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1838). “The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.408

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