"The only freedom which deserves the name
is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way,
so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs,
or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised
over any member of a civilized community, against his will,
is to prevent harm to others.
His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
"What ever crushes individuality is despotism,
no matter what name it is called."
- John Stuart Mill
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"A claim for equality of material position
can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. "
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext
on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is itself the highest political end."
- Lord Acton
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"Each of us has a natural right, from God,
to defend his person, his liberty, and his property."
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
- Frederique Bastiat
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"Underlying most arguments against the free market
is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"We have a system that increasingly t
axes work and subsidizes non-work."
"Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion – the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals – the technique of the marketplace."
- Milton Friedman
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"It is dangerous to be right
when the government is wrong"
- Voltaire
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".... man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.."
- Ronald Reagan
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"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
- Tacitus
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"It is much more important to kill bad bills
than to pass good ones."
- Calvin Coolidge
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul,
can always count on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw |
