My Favorite Libertarian Quotes

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." Thomas Jefferson "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775) "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” Thomas Paine "Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft." Adam Kokesh "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." Khalil Gibran “Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.” John Maynard Keynes "The first reaction to truth is hatred." Tertullian “Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.” Frédéric Bastiat "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." Tacitus “The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frédéric Bastiat "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." Frederic Bastiat "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen." Friedrich Nietzsche "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." John Hay "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." Thomas Jefferson "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master." Thomas Jefferson "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty." Henry David Thoreau "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” Ayn Rand “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” Confucius "If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit." Josiah Stamp "Gold and silver are money. Everything else is credit." J.P. Morgan "Paper is poverty. It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. I now deny the power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender." Thomas Jefferson "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." John Adams (1797-1801) 2nd President of the United States "When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." James Madison "There is no path to peace. Peace is the path." Mahatma Gandhi "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." Thomas Jefferson "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." George Washington "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms." Thomas Jefferson "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country." James Madison "That government is best which governs least." Thomas Paine "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." Thomas Jefferson "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson "He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation." James A. Garfield “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value... zero.” Voltaire "The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” George Washington "Democracy passes into despotism." Plato "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson "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 "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing." Josiah Stamp "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson "The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea." John Adams "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford "There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." Ludwig von Mises "The great object is that every man be armed." Patrick Henry "From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?" Thomas Paine "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell "Truth is treason in an empire of lies." George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Søren Kierkegaard “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.” Leo Tolstoy

My Favorite Libertarian Quotes

My Favorite Libertarian Quotes

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