Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene McCarthy

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed

Erin Morgenstern

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

George H. W. Bush

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

George Harrison

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

George Herbert

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

George Herbert

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

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.

Jean-Paul Marat

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.