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- The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
- I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who…
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
- I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.
- They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of…
- All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
- The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that…
- I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
- Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,…
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me…
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- 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…
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a…
- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is…
- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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