Libertarian Quotes - Page 10

• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Strong, Don't Give Up

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Leadership, Peace

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Internet, Terrorism

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3631, Delphi Classics

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• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Freedom, Liberty

  "Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 26, 1952.

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• We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

  E. M. Forster

  Fear, Past, Freedom Of Speech

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

  L. Neil Smith

  Believe, Liberty, Principles

  "What Libertarians Believe" by L. Neil Smith and Rylla Cathryn Smith, www.ncc-1776.org. January 4, 2009.

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• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Should Have, Liberty

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

  Jesse Jackson

  Liberty, Allegations, Deny

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• It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Libertarian Party, Government, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings”, p.111

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Believe, Responsibility

  "Housewives, Sure, but What Makes Them Real?" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Liberty, Rewards

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 76), 2004.

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• The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

  Milton Friedman

  Hate, Color, People

  "Why Government Is the Problem". Book by Milton Friedman, February 1, 1993.

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Peace, War

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Libertarian Party

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• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Jail, Alcohol

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

  George Orwell

  Perfect, Liberty, Revolution

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.44, Arcturus Publishing

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• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Views, Numbers, Liberty

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Self

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice"

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

  Thomas Reed

  Libertarian Party, Evil, Liberty

  "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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