Libertarianism Quotes - Page 17

• When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

  William O. Douglas

  Exercise, Rights, Hands

  "Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 27, 1953.

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• The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Father, Greatness

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• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Army, House

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

  Herbert Spencer

  Liberty, Benefits, Libertarian

  "The Principles of Sociology".

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• We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, White, House

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• Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Greed, Political

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• Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

  Joseph Sobran

  Giving, Presidential, Liberty

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• The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Government, Liberty

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• Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• To change masters is not to be free.

  Jose Marti

  Freedom, Liberty, Politics

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Patriotic, Loss

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

  Brian Wesbury

  Creativity, People, Community

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Law, Drug

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

  Felix Frankfurter

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Constitution

  "Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.

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• 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.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Hard Work, Law, Forever

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• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

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• If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Men, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.82, Penguin

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• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Government, Two

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• I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Better Life, Evidence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Fear, Sheep

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.108, Regnery Publishing

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• It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Average, Law

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• Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Freedom, Sleep, Law

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