Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way."
Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty."
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"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
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"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms"
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"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him."
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"There's never been a good government."
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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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"Dependence leads to subservience."
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"Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems."
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"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
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"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free."
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"Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)"
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"Those who trade liberty for security have neither."
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"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
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"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
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"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."
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"Rather suffer an injustice than commit one."
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"The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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