Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Safire

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income,

Norman Vincent Peale

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Murray Rothbard

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Milton Friedman

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Joseph Sobran

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

L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Thomas Jefferson

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Evo Morales

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Lajos Kossuth

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Martin Bormann

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Peter L. Berger

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

Sidney Hook

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Henry Hazlitt

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

James Cook

The more welfare, the more crime.

Larry Elder

The welfare state is an assault on families.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.