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Liberty Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Love your country, but never trust its government.
- The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
- ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
- Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
- A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not…
- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
- Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There…
- Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
- Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
- Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights…
- The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- 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