I'll admit I'm obsessed with Liberty quotes and can't get enough of them, so if you'd like to share one, that'd be great.
So let me get this party started!
"Government is Essentially the Negation of Liberty."
Ludvig Von Misses
"The ground of Liberty is to be gained in inches."
Thomas Jefferson
Jan. 27, 1790
"As for me, I think anyone, whoever he may be, who has done NOTHING for liberty, or has not done all he could, deserves to
counted as an ENEMY of it."
Joseph-Pierre Fayau
Nov. 26, 1793
I frequently recommend this lady:
http://www.nancybuttons.com/
I just bought Walden/Civil Disobedience so I'm sure I'll get a few good ones out of it. . .I'll let cha know.
http://libertarianquotes.com
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Danial Webster
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
Great thread! This one could go on for years. These are good for you future candidates to memorize and incorporate into your speeches.
Here are some good ones:
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain
I'll sit this one out. >:D
Just heard this one on Free Talk Live (bumper sticker)
Bush Killed the Constitution,
Obama will Bury it.
"GET THE F*CK OUT OF MY FACE"
watershed-2008
Heard on FTL
An unarmed man is a slave.
An armed man is a free man.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
1902
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the "subjects" of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase in it.
Woodrow Wilson
NY Press Club
Sept. 9, 1912
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds
contempt for law.
-Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier
than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have
them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. -Barry Jones,
politician, author (1932- )
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the
outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language
is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared
aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted
idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such
thing as "keeping out of politics". All issues are political issues, and
politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and
schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
-George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the
very definition of slavery. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." -- George Stephanopolous, accidentally speaking truth on behalf of President Clinton during Clinton's first term
"There are two kinds of people, those who want to be left alone and those who won't leave them alone." Doreen Hannes
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'.
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist
sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men
striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification
of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the
greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." - Herbert Hoover
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the last refuge of political and economic opportunists."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"
-- Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
(Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)
Set aside justice, then, and what are kingdoms but great bands of brigands? For what are brigands' bands but little kingdoms? For in brigandage the hands of the underlings are directed by the commander, the confederacy of them is sworn together, and the pillage is shared by law among them. And if those ragamuffins grow up to be able enough to keep forts, build habitations, possess cities, and conquer adjoining nations, then their government is no longer called brigandage, but graced with the eminent name of a kingdom, given and gotten not because they have left their practices but because they use them without danger of law. Elegant and excellent was that pirate's answer to the great Macedonian Alexander, who had taken him; the king asking him how he durst molest the seas so, he replied with a free spirit: "How darest thou molest the whole earth? But because I do it only with a little ship, I am called brigand: thou doing it with a great navy art called emperor."
— St. Augustine, City of God, Book IV [410 A.D.]
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so
much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
-Christopher Morley, writer
(1890-1957)
"History is a vast early warning system."
-Norman Cousins, editor and author
(1915-1990)
"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, revolutionary (1736-1799)
"Making government larger is never the answer.............unless the question is really, really stupid!"
Dan somebody, from CATO, this morning.
Expecting the government to fight the deficit is like expecting the Mafia to fight crime. – Anonymous :batman:
Frederic Bastiat "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." :bow:
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
- Ayn Rand
Liberty is not the Daughter, but the Mother of Order.
Pierre Proudhon
"government that is big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have"
Thomas Jefferson.
"the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money"
Margret Thacher
It occurred to me that these were not quite "Liberty Quotes" sorry I should have put them else where!
we're gonna hammer ya real hard over that!
"The problem with Socialism is that It sucks having to work for the lazy!"
"Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers 'the security of a free state?' And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings."
L. Neil Smith
To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one (and) to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery, he must be made to feel that slavery is right.
— Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom [1855]
Flouride in the water and aspartame in the drinks is a big part of making the mindless slave.
Quote from: Kat Kanning on April 02, 2010, 06:12 AM NHFT
Flouride in the water and aspartame in the drinks is a big part of making the mindless slave.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd102.htm (http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd102.htm)
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
-- Dresden James