Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Berkeley Breathed

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Alfred Marshall

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.