My Favorite Libertarian Quotes

http://i.imgur.com/DFjpb6Z.jpg "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

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