Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Karl Marx

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

Jules Verne

Liberty is worth paying for.

Murray Rothbard

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray Rothbard

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Murray Rothbard

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Murray Rothbard

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Murray Rothbard

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Murray Rothbard

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray Rothbard

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Harry Hopkins

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Hal Sparks

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Herbert Spencer

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Jennifer Chiaverini

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Jeff Sessions

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Federica Montseny

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Fanny Burney

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Eugene McCarthy

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Francis Bacon

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Frances Wright

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.