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  • 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.

  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

    Men   Gun   Law  
  • There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

    "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech delivered for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.
  • When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216
  • Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

    Peace   War   Stupid  
  • It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

    Freedom   Real   War  
    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press
  • When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

    Exercise   Rights   Hands  
    "Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 27, 1953.
  • There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

  • In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.

    War   School   Government  
  • Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1
  • Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

    Greatness   Men   Liberty  
    Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99
  • Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

    James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin
  • The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

    George Washington, J. M. Williams (1800). “Washington's political legacies: To which is annexed an appendix, containing an account of his illness, death, and the national tributes of respect paid to his memory, with a biographical outline of his life and character”, p.90
  • One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

    "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
  • The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

    Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.
  • America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

    "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.
  • No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

    Mean   Hair   Want  
    "Dirty Harry comes clean". Interview with Jeff Dawson, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
  • Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

    "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.
  • A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  • Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
  • In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

    Peace   War   Independent  
    graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”
  • I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

  • There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

    Mean   Liberty   Purpose  
    Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation
  • War is the Health of the State.

    Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.382, Univ of California Press
  • No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

    Life   Trust   Freedom  
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

    "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.
  • The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

    Bullying   Freedom   Work  
    Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)
  • No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

    Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing
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