Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Friedrich August von Hayek

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Lord Acton

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Tamika Catchings

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Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Eric Hoffer

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Ellen Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

It will also move people to Crosby, Dayton, Liberty and Beaumont like it was originally designed.

Mike Pence

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

John Ashcroft

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Interior liberty is universal.

Karl Marx

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

Jules Verne

Liberty is worth paying for.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Murray Rothbard

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray Rothbard

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Murray Rothbard

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Murray Rothbard

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Murray Rothbard

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray Rothbard

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

Milton Friedman

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

Milton Friedman

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

Milton Friedman

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Milton Friedman

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.