My Favorite Libertarian Quotes

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
~ Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775)

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
~ Thomas Paine

"Theft is when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them. Either governments own "their people" as slaves or taxation is theft."
~ Adam Kokesh

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."
~ George Orwell

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
~ Khalil Gibran

“Through inflation, governments secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million can detect the theft.”
~ John Maynard Keynes

"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
~ Tertullian

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
~ Tacitus

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

"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

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
~ John Hay

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
~ Patrick Henry

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
~ John F. Kennedy

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
~ Ayn Rand

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
~ Confucius

"If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
~ Josiah Stamp

"Gold and silver are money. Everything else is credit."
~ J.P. Morgan

"Paper is poverty. It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. I now deny the power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
~ John Adams (1797-1801) 2nd President of the United States

"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
~ James Madison

"There is no path to peace. Peace is the path."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
~ George Washington

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
~ George Washington

"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
~ James Madison

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
~ George Washington

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."
~ James Madison

"That government is best which governs least."
~ Thomas Paine

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
~ James A. Garfield

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value... zero.”
~ Voltaire

"The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.”
~ George Washington

"Democracy passes into despotism."
~ Plato

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
~ John Adams

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."
~ Josiah Stamp

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
~ John Adams

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
~ Henry Ford

"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
~ Ludwig von Mises

"The great object is that every man be armed."
~ Patrick Henry

"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?"
~ Thomas Paine

"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
~ George Orwell

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
~ George Orwell

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies."
~ George Orwell

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard

“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

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