Llewellyn Rockwell Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

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  Crush, Rights, Liberty

• Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

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  Political, Liberty, Principles

• Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

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  People, Liberty, Libertarian

• Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

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  Liberty, Subsidies, Libertarian

• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

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  Home, Rising Up, Government

• Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

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  Government, Liberty, Lessons

• The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.

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  Hard Work, Law, Forever

• What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

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  Freedom, Ideas, Liberty

• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

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  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

• To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

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  Giving Up, Liberty, Argument

• It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

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  Team, Liberty, Citizens

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