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Time is the only thing you can't buy.
Truth and news are not the same thing.
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
Everything government touches turns to crap.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.