The Liberty Blog

"A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot – because the first leads inevitably to the second." Harry Browne

"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." Joseph Sobran

"Let them march all they want, as long as they pay their taxes." Alexander Haig

"A trial without a defense is a sham. Business without competition is a monopoly. Science without debate is propaganda." Joanne Nova

"If commercial activity were unregulated and absolutely unsubsidized, it could depend upon only one factor for success -- pleasing customers." Karl Hess

“I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.” Lao Tzu

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." Benjamin Franklin

"An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do." Robert LeFevre

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." Ayn Rand

"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure." Robert LeFevre

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." Robert A. Heinlein

"I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." Robert A. Heinlein

"The much abused shopkeepers have abolished slavery and serfdom, made woman the companion of man with equal rights, proclaimed equality before the law and freedom of thought and opinion, declared war on war, abolished torture, and mitigated the cruelty of punishment. What cultural force can boast of similar achievements?" Ludwig von Mises

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” Murray N. Rothbard

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased." - Alexander Hamilton

“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” Robert LeFevre

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." Benjamin Franklin

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson

"Education is favorable to liberty, freedom can only exist in a society of knowledge. Without learning men are incapable of knowing their rights, and ware learning is confined to a few people liberty can neither be equal nor universal." Benjamin Rush

"Those who are not interested in politics are destined to be ruled by those who are."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free." Ronald Reagan

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson

"The proper concern of government is not compassion, but liberty. When government, in the name of 'compassion,' initiates force against the individual, it has become the agent of despotism." R. W. Grant in The Incredible Bread Machine: A Study of Capitalism, Freedom, & the State

GUN CONTROL:
The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

"The people running Washington DC today are not American. They belong in prison, not in power." JB Williams, Canada Free Press

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson

"I swear upon the altar of God: Eternal violence to all forms of tyranny over the minds of men." Thomas Jefferson

“If you will not fight for the right when you can win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” Winston Churchill

"What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to 'shocks,' but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date. Unfortunately . . . . . that day may have finally arrived."
Peter Schiff

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey

"Once there was an evil man who was holding captive a little girl. He told her that he had put into a cloth bag a black stone and a white stone from the path. If she chose a white stone from the bag she could go free, however, if she chose a black stone she would remain with him. She put her hand into the bag, pulled out a stone and prompty dropped it onto the path. It was lost among the other stones. She appeared regretful and then put her hand into the bag and pulled out a black stone. She said, "Since the black stone remains in the bag the stone I chose must have been the white." Of course, he had put two black stones into the bag and yet, due to her cleverness, he was forced to free her. We must develop this cleverness if we are to deal with tyrants." Mary Elizabeth: Croft

" 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. " William Pitt, 1783

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies . . . if the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." Thomas Jefferson

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." Barry Goldwater

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

"Those who would give up a little liberty, to gain a little security, will deserve neither, and lose both." Benjamin Franklin

"While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always maintain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the annunciation of truth." V, V for Vendetta