Liberty Quotes - Page 12

[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

War is the Health of the State.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Dependence leads to subservience.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

All good things are wild and free.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.