Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"We can have democracy in this country,
or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few,
but we can’t have both."

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis  

"Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"The principle that the end justifies the means is
in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals.
In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer."

~ Norman Mailer  

"State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management."

~ Benito Mussolini  

~ Benito Mussolini  

"Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State."

~ Benito Mussolini  

"What has always made the state a hell on earth
has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven."

~ Friedrich Hoelderlin  

"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations."

~ David D. Friedman  

"If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every
governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude
they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy."

~ Frank Chodorov  

"Nothing is less productive
than to make more efficient
what should not be done at all."

~ Peter Drucker  

"Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettos and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettos and barrios would be the second wand."

~ Richard Lamm  

"There are in nature
neither rewards nor punishments --
there are only consequences."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll