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Tag Name "Libertarian" (931)

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Baron de Montesquieu
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
Noam Chomsky
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von Clausewitz
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I want to gag sometimes when I see who we are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.
Dave Barry
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Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.
Woodrow Wilson
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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
Bernard Bailyn
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There are many farm handouts but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.
Walter E. Williams
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A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
William A. Niskanen
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
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Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a barbed-wire entanglement designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.
Jacob G. Hornberger
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.
Henry Grady Weaver
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
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The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of freedom.
Joseph Sobran
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John Locke
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One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.
P. J. O'Rourke
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... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
Nathaniel Branden
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The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.
John Ramsay McCulloch
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Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.
Mary Ruwart
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Sidney Hook
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The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control many of the perks that board members count on. So it's not the invisible hand of the market that leads to those monumental executive incomes it's the invisible handshake in the boardroom.
Paul Krugman
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