- If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
– Thomas Sowell (1992)

- If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
– Thomas Sowell (1992)

- We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
– Winston Churchill (1903)

- The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
– David D. Boaz (1997)

- This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.
– Hugh Downs (1997)

- Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.
– Joseph Sobran (1990)

- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
– Thomas Jefferson

- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
– Herbert Spencer (1891)

- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
– Pericles (430 BC)

- The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
– Robert A. Heinlein

- There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
– P.J. O'Rourke (1993)

- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
– H.L. Mencken

- Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
– Milton Friedman

- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
– P.J. O'Rourke

- In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
– Voltaire (1764)

- 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 (1995)

- Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
– Douglas Casey (1992)

- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
– Winston Churchill

- Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
– Benjamin Disraeli, 1874

- He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
– the Bible, Luke 22:36.

- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
– James Madison

**And there is discussion as to what the founding fathers meant with the second amendment***

- The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan

- If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
– P.J. O'Rourke (1993)

- The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.
– Milton Friedman

- Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
– Charley Reese (1998)

- No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
– P. J. O'Rourke (1992)

- Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
– Allan H. Meltzer (1993)

- The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
– Joseph Sobran (1995)

- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain

- Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at its worst, an intolerant one.
– Thomas Paine

- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson

- It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
– Calvin Coolidge

- I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
– Abraham Lincoln

- The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
– Mark Twain

- The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
– Ayn Rand

-It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
– Charles A. Beard

- A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
– Edward R. Murrow

- It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself.
– Justice Casey Percell

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
– G. Gordon Liddy

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1976)

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.
– Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
– Herbert Hoover

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
– Edward Langley

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
– Abraham Lincoln

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
– Mark Twain

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.
– Ayn Rand

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
– James Bovard (1994)

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)

Quotes

I will be placing random quotes i come across here.Enjoy!

-"Practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people."
- Friedrich von Hayek (Nobel Prize Winner)

- "A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which our government was founded."
- Abraham Lincoln-

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan

- "At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent."
- Joseph Sobran

- "The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation:how to limit the scope and power of government.Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom,come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up."
- Milton Friedman-

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Theodore Roosevelt

- It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important . . . You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
- Gandhi

- “As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.”
- Dave Barry

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
~ Milton Friedman

"The means of defense against foreign danger historicallyhave become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- James Madison

"We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basementprices, in return for the false promise of more security... The Americabeing designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending...The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger isthat Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls."
- Wayne LaPierre, CEO of National Rifle Association

"..the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively."
- Walter Lippmann-

“Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'”
— Harry Browne

- If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
– Jacob Hornberger (1995)

- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin