Liberty quotes

[MTPorcupine3]

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
-Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

What would New Hampshire be without Free Staters?

[MaineShark]

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
-Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

What would New Hampshire be without Free Staters (and other liberty-lovers)?

[bold-face added]

Massachusetts?

Joe

[Kat Kanning]

"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form.
The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine,
it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
-- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

[KBCraig]

"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear".
- Aesop

[Kat Kanning]

I like it!

[Pat McCotter]

 Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
-- Sallust

[Friday]

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,
General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century [1923]

[Lloyd Danforth]

"Liberty is the Mother, not the Daughter of Order"

same guy

[Raineyrocks]

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."~ Robert H. Jackson

[Kat Kanning]

"It is a policeman's duty to protect men from criminals -- criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property -- then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman."
-- Ayn Rand

[Pat K]

And that time is now.