Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Paul Singer

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Hesiod

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.