I found these quotes a while back. I thought I'd pass them along.
I would rather be exposed to the
inconveniences attending too much
liberty than those attending too small a
degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1791)
A government which robs Peter to pay
Paul can always depend on the support of
Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1944)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of the blessings. The
inherent blessing of socialism is the
equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill
There is only one basic human right, the
right to do as you **** well please. And
with it comes the only basic human duty,
the duty to take the consequences.
-- P. J. O'Rourke (1993)
Government's view of the economy could
be summed up in a few short phrases: If
it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it.
-- Ronald Reagan (1986)
I was guilty of judging capitalism by
its operations and socialism by its
hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its
works and socialism by its literature.
-- Sidney Hook
America needs fewer laws, not more
prisons.
-- James Bovard
Everything that is really great and
inspiring is created by the individual
who can labor in freedom.
-- Albert Einstein (1950)
War is just one more big government
program.
-- Joseph Sobran
War is the health of the State.
-- Randolph Bourne (1917)
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It
soon wastes, exhausts, and murders
itself. There never was a democracy yet
that did not commit suicide.
-- John Adams (1814)
Foreign aid might be defined as a
transfer from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor
countries.
-- Douglas Casey (1992)
Peace, commerce and honest friendship
with all nations; entangling alliances
with none.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is liberty.
-- The Bible, II Corinthians 3:17.
If you want government to intervene
domestically, you're a liberal. If you
want government to intervene overseas,
you're a conservative. If you want
government to intervene everywhere,
you're a moderate. If you don't want
government to intervene anywhere, you're
an extremist.
-- Joseph Sobran (1995)
One of the greatest delusions in the
world is the hope that the evils in this
world are to be cured by legislation.
-- Thomas B. Reed (1886)
In general, the art of government
consists in taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens
to give to the other.
-- Voltaire (1764)
They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1755)
Necessity is the plea for every
infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
slaves.
-- William Pitt (1783)
If you are not free to choose wrongly
and irresponsibly, you are not free at
all.
-- Jacob Hornberger (1995)
I heartily accept the motto, "That
government is best which governs least. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
Government is not reason; it is not
eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is
a dangerous servant and a fearful
master.
-- Attributed to George Washington
Giving money and power to government is
like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
When buying and selling are controlled
by legislation, the first things to be
bought and sold are legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
A government that is big enough to give
you all you want is big enough to take
it all away.
-- Barry Goldwater (1964)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary
government program.
-- Milton Friedman
Politicians are the same all over: they
promise to build a bridge even where
there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev (1960)
The whole aim of practical politics is
to keep the populace alarmed -- and
hence clamorous to be led to safety --
by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to
God.
-- John Bradshaw
There are just two rules of governance
in a free society: Mind your own
business. Keep your hands to yourself.
-- P. J. O'Rourke (1993)
The human race divides politically into
those who want people to be controlled
and those who have no such desire.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Just because you do not take an interest
in politics doesn't mean politics won't
take an interest in you.
-- Pericles (430 BC)
The more corrupt the state, the more it
legislates.
-- Tacitus
There is no virtue in compulsory
government charity, and there is no
virtue in advocating it. A politician
who portrays himself as "caring" and
"sensitive" because he wants to expand
the government's charitable programs is
merely saying that he's willing to try
to do good with other people's money.
Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes
pride in supporting such programs is
telling us that he'll do good with his
own money -- if a gun is held to his
head.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer (1891)
More laws, less justice.
-- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca (42 BC)
No man's life, liberty, or property are
safe while the legislature is in
session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)
The strongest reason for the people to
retain the right to bear arms is, as a
last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There is no worse tyranny than to force
a man to pay for what he does not want
merely because you think it would be
good for him.
-- Robert Heinlein
Liberty is the only thing you cannot
have unless you are willing to give it
to others.
-- William Allen White
The true danger is when Liberty is
nibbled away, for expedients.
-- Edmund Burke (1899)
I have ever deemed it fundamental for
the United States never to take active
part in the quarrels of Europe. Their
political interests are entirely
distinct from ours. Their mutual
jealousies, their balance of power,
their complicated alliances, their forms
and principles of government, are all
foreign to us. They are nations of
eternal war.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1823)
America does not go abroad in search of
monsters to destroy. She is the
well-wisher to the freedom and
independence of all. She well knows that
by enlisting under other banners than
her own, were they even the banners of
foreign independence, she would involve
herself beyond the power of extrication
in all the wars of interest and
intrigue, of individual avarice, envy
and ambition, which assume the colors
and usurp the standards of freedom.
-- John Quincy Adams (1821)
He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression.
-- Thomas Paine (1795)
Government is the great fiction, through
which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat
Ask not what you can do for your
country; ask what your government is
doing to you.
-- Joseph Sobran (1990)
God grants liberty only to those who
love it, and are always ready to guard
and defend it.
-- Daniel Webster (1834)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding.
-- Justice Louis Brandeis (1928)
The saddest epitaph which can be carved
in memory of a vanished liberty is that
it was lost because its possessors
failed to stretch forth a saving hand
while yet there was time.
-- Justice George Sutherland (1938)
The era of resisting big government is
never over.
-- Paul Gigot (1998)
Not a place upon earth might be so happy
as America. Her situation is remote from
all the wrangling world, and she has
nothing to do but to trade with them.
-- Thomas Paine (1776)
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism
operated by pygmies.
-- Honore de Balzac
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness
to suffering, well-being to misery must
defend without compromise private
ownership in the means of production.
-- Ludwig von Mises (1920)
The triumph of persuasion over force is
the sign of a civilized society.
-- Mark Skousen
Good intentions will always be pleaded
for any assumption of power. The
Constitution was made to guard the
people against the dangers of good
intentions. There are men in all ages
who mean to govern well, but they mean
to govern. They promise to be good
masters, but they mean to be masters.
-- Daniel Webster
If angels were to govern men, neither
external nor internal controls on
government would be necessary. In
framing a government that is to be
administered by men over men, the great
difficulty lies in this: you must first
enable the government to control the
governed; and in the next place oblige
it to control itself.
-- James Madison
Let the people think they govern and
they will be governed.
-- William Penn (1693)
In 1940, teachers were asked what they
regarded as the three major problems in
American schools. They identified the
three major problems as: Littering,
noise, and chewing gum. Teachers last
year were asked what the three major
problems in American schools were, and
they defined them as: Rape, assault, and
suicide.
-- William Bennett (1993)
The threat posed by humans to the
natural environment is nothing compared
to the threat to humans posed by global
environmental policy.
-- Fred L. Smith (1992)
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of
freedom -- they are the pillars of
society.
-- Henrik Ibsen (1877)
Government is actually the worst failure
of civilized man. There has never been a
really good one, and even those that are
most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel,
grasping, and unintelligent.
-- H. L. Mencken
Government cannot make man richer, but
it can make him poorer.
-- Ludwig von Mises
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be
trusted with the government of himself.
Can he, then, be trusted with the
government of others?
-- Thomas Jefferson (1801)
A wise and frugal government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one
another, which shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is
the sum of good government.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton (1887)
Political power grows out of the barrel
of a gun.
-- Mao Zedong (1938)
We contend that for a nation to try to
tax itself into prosperity is like a man
standing in a bucket and trying to lift
himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill (1903)
If you have been voting for politicians
who promise to give you goodies at
someone else's expense, then you have no
right to complain when they take your
money and give it to someone else,
including themselves.
-- Thomas Sowell (1992)
War has all the characteristics of
socialism most conservatives hate:
Centralized power, state planning, false
rationalism, restricted liberties,
foolish optimism about intended results,
and blindness to unintended secondary
results.
-- Joseph Sobran (1991)
There never was a good war or a bad
peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1773)
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