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Tag Name "Libertarian" (929)

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.
Alexander Beresford Hope
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction the one cannot exist without the other.
William E. Simon
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
H. L. Mencken
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Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.
David D. Aitken
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
William Greider
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
William J. Clinton
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
William J. Clinton
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The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
William J. Clinton
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If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
William J. Clinton
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The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
Albert J. Nock
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When politicians say I'm in politics, it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, I'm in public service, you know you should flee.
Albert J. Nock
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
William J. H. Boetcker
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
William J. H. Boetcker
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
William J. H. Boetcker
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
William J. H. Boetcker
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
Albert Einstein
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
Albert Einstein
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
Albert Einstein
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