quotes

This is a list of all of my favorite quotes. You may also be interested in a list of specifically political quotes.

  • You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
     - Abbie Hoffman, Tikkun
  • And now I’m like a major threat,
    Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.
     - 2Pac, Holla If Ya Hear Me
  • An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.
     - Victor Hugo, The History of a Crime
  • The rule now is for politicians to ignore and violate men’s actual rights while arguing about a whole list of rights never dreamed of in this country’s founding documents.
     - Leonard Peikoff, Health Care Is Not a Right
  • When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
     - George Pataki
  • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero.
     - Voltaire
  • Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
     - Frederic Bastiat
  • Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ’within the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
     - Thomas Jefferson
  • If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
     - Samuel Adams
  • Freedom is ALWAYS illegal.
     - Larken Rose

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