Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Butcher

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Jesse Ventura

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Jesse Ventura

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Jay Leno

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

Buzz Aldrin

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Burl Ives

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

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.'

Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

Milton Friedman

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

Milton Friedman

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Milton Friedman

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

Milton Friedman

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

Milton Friedman

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

Keith Richards

The public library is the great equaliser.

Isaiah Berlin

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Isaiah Berlin

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Gloria Steinem

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

H. L. Mencken

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

H. L. Mencken

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

H. L. Mencken

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

George Herbert

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

George Herbert

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Gary Johnson

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Gary Johnson

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.