Libertarian Quotes

[Paul]

Well i like quotes and i just stumbled upon this site that has over 1300 of them. enjoy

LINK

 

[ATM]

If voting could change things, it would be illegal. – Unknown

Nice quotes. Rep'd

 

[Fletch]

I didn't see my favorite there, so here it is:

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

 

[JetGirl]

Another Heinlein quote from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

 

[Mrs. Hoppes]

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

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

[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon

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

 

[Crystalship1]

They forgot one:

"Vote for me and help Barak Obama into the Whitehouse"

 

[slacker]

Link seems to be broken. anyone have a mirror?

 

[Paul]

Link seems to be broken. anyone have a mirror?

Still works for me.

 

[slacker]

It must still be cached in your browser

 

[Paul]

try this

http://www.lpboulder.com/quotes/

 

[mrjarrell]

As good a place as any to put this.

You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows - to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check.
From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. - Étienne de la Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Am I being detained?

 

[D-Ric902]

Am I being detained?