Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Varnado

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Nevada Democrat

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

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.'

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ellen Key

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

Dorothy Richardson

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Richard Bergenheim

It is always difficult to see someone speaking under coercion and under these circumstances. We are seeking more information about the letter that Jill refers to in the video. We remain in constant contact with Jill's family and are still doing everything possible to obtain Jill's release.

Harlan Watson

We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation ? not coercion ? with a true sense of partnership,

Tom Daschle

coercion is not his first option, but it's an option.

Barry Lynn

Some religious organizations are openly using the hurricane relief efforts to win new converts. If these groups can't separate their evangelism from their relief work, they should not be eligible for public funding. People displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita should not be subjected to unwanted, high-pressure religious coercion as the price of getting help from their own government.

Niall Ferguson

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Murray Rothbard

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Herman Kahn

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Clint Eastwood

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

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone