Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Rush Limbaugh

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

Rush Limbaugh

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

Thomas Merton

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Ron Paul

The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.

Ron Paul

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Ron Paul

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Tim Robbins

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

Thomas Jefferson

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Samuel Adams

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Sallust

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Russell Pearce

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

Thomas B. Macaulay

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

Thomas B. Macaulay

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas Hobbes

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

Thomas Hobbes

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Thomas Hobbes

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Thomas Hobbes

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Thomas Jefferson

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Thomas Jefferson

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

Thomas Friedman

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

Victor Hugo

When liberty returns, I will return.

Sophie Swetchine

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Sophie Swetchine

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Tammy Bruce

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

Tacitus

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Tacitus

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

Robert Browning

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Michael Badnarik

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Rand Paul

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.