Samuel Adams Quotepic: “It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Quotepic
~Funded by the government just means funded by the people… government… has no money. It only takes… ~Elon Musk
Elon Musk on Government Funding
Tom Clancy on Government: “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.”
Tom Clancy on Government
“The government… was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself.” – Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Quotepic Government Judging Itself
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. – Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quote US Government Treatment of Native Americans
Quote by Voltaire: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Who Rules
Regulating speech is a dangerous notion, and not compatible with the principles of a free society. – Ron Paul
Ron Paul on Regulating Speech
There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot. – John F Kennedy
Enslavement Plot
Friedrich Nietzsche quotepic: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Nietzsche on the Individual
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain
Mark Twain on Critical Mass
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its […]
Eisenhower Quote War is Theft
Milton Friedman Quotation: “Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink, and make the combination worthless.”
Milton Friedman Ink & Paper
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Quote Who Should Make Decisions
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
George Orwell Quote Political Language
“Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons.” – Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy Quotepic War Profiteers
Quote by Albert Camus: “Freedom is not a gift received from the State but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each & the union of all.”
Camus on Freedom
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato
Plato Quote Take Interest in Government Or Be Ruled By Fools
Ludwig Von Mises: “Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
Von Mises on School
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests? – Ron Paul
Ron Paul on War, Lies, and Propaganda
Quotepic Niccolo Machiavelli: “A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.”
Trust Armed Citizenry
Source: The Libertarian Republic Drew Carey Quote: “Liquor prohibition led to the rise in organized crime in America, and drub prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.”
Drew Carey on Prohibition
Frederick Douglass quote from his West India Emancipation Speech, 1857: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
Frederick Douglass on the Limits of Tyrants
Edmund Burke Quote Delusional Abroagation: “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke Quote Delusional Abrogation
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions.” – Lawrence Reed
Lawrence Reed on Defenders of the Free Market
Quote by George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Orwell on Liberty
“The first thing that strikes you when you come into contact with the appointed official is his peculiar admixture of obsequiousness and arrogance. Toward his superior, his benefactor, he shows a deference that is not different from that of a flunky, while toward the general public his attitude is supercilious […]
Frank Chodorov on the Elite Mindset
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht on Robbing a Bank
Source: Libertarian Girl
Thomas Jefferson on Liberty
Friedrich Hayek Quotepic: “‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Friedrich Hayek Quotepic
“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom & no such thing as publick liberty without freedom of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin 1722
Benjamin Franklin Freedom of Thought Quote
Martin Luther King Quote: “Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.”
MLK on Education
Quote by Ludwig von Mises: “History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”
Mises on Peace via War
Quote by Ludwig von Mises: “If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
Mises on the Role of Government
Jimi Hendrix quote: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix on the Power of Love
“Individual policy preferences exist as a signal of their holder’s intelligence or moral worth – and a challenge to one’s policy preferences gets interpreted as an attack on the holder’s smarts or basic goodness.” – Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell Identity Politics Quote
Thomas Jefferson Quotepic on Government as Servant of the People: “The Federal Government is our Servant, not our Master.”
Government as Servant of the People
Martin Luther King Quotepic “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
