“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.”
-Jacob Hornberger (1995)
“If one rejects a laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason reject every kind of government action.”
-Ludwig von Mises
“The American republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
“Every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has a right to but himself.”
-John Locke
“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
-Ayn Rand
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
-Thomas Sowell
“The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy judicial safeguard of individuals freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
-Friedrich Hayek
“The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined those which to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite.”
-James Madison
“The founders of our nation would be horrified by today’s level of American servitude to their government.”
-Walter E. Williams
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
-Adam Smith
“A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither.”
-Milton Friedman
“Its about damned time that someone start calling the Democrats what they are…economic fascists. Do your homework on the definition and you’ll understand.”
-Neal Boortz