Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions."

~ Adolf Hitler (False)  

"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"A large number of people, certainly the majority of the political looter class, think the best way to deal with the rapidly deepening economic crisis is via 'stimulus packages' with money plucked off the magic money tree... which is to say, by trying to re-inflate the credit bubble that actually caused the crisis. This is a bit like treating alcoholics by urging them to buy more whiskey."

~ Perry de Havilland  

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people
is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

~ Plutarch  

"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive,
for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice
in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote
for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."

~ Karl Marx (Questionable)  

"Every government interference in the economy
consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force,
to some men at the expense of others."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for."

~ Bill Bonner  

"Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist."

~ Kenneth Boulding  

"Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? 
Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?"

~ Neal Boortz  

"[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today’s social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills."

~ Doug Bandow  

"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."

~ Franklin P. Adams  

"The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own."

~ John Adams  

"I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."

~ James Buchanan  

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American’s output—which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American’s living standard would at least double.

~ Paul Craig Roberts