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Liberty Quotes by Joseph Sobran
- Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
- We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
- The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per…
- War is just one more big government program.
- The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
- War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
- People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to…
- Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This…
- The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
- Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.
- Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
- Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they…
- The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a…
- Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
- Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
- 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…
- Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
More Liberty Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton