“Men should not petition for rights, but take them.”
Thomas Paine
“Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.”
Frank Zappa
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Charlton
“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.”
James Donald
“Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time. When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Frédéric Bastiat
“Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.”
Vladimir Lenin
“Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based “philosophy,” which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it “progressive”.”
Larken Rose
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
H. L. Mencken
“The State is the major enemy of mankind.”
Murray Rothbard
“Kid’s heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they’re totally unprepared to do anything. They can’t read, they can’t write, they can’t think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.”
Frank Zappa
“Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.”
Walter E. Williams
“Too many voters are already bought — not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.”
Joseph Sobran
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
Thomas Reed
“We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.”
Ron Paul
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
William S. Burroughs
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
Joseph Stalin
“For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
Clarence Darrow
“Forcing people to be generous isn’t humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.”
Harry Browne
“Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?”
John Taylor Gatto
“Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.”
Ron Paul
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
Thomas Paine
“No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”
Herbert Hoover
“You don’t have a right to a house, you don’t have a right to a job, you don’t have a right to medical care.”
Ron Paul
“Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.”
G. Edward Griffin
“First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.”
Mark Twain
“What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Democracy is doomed to collapse, just as Soviet communism was doomed to collapse.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.”
Cato
“The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.”
Sheldon Richman
“In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the ‘public sector,’ which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.”
Lew Rockwell
“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex–but Congress can.”
Cullen Hightower
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
Thomas Aquinas
Source: The Burning Platform
“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.”
Arnold Toynbee
“There is no difference in principle… between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”
Jacob G. Hornberger
“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. ‘I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.’ ‘I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.’ ‘Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!’”
Bill Hicks
“What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.”
Ludwig von Mises
Source: The Burning Platform
