On this page I will place quotes that I like and find thought provoking. Enjoy and feel free to use them wherever you want, just remember to give credit to the author of the quote. Check back as more quotes are added.
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
- Will Durant
“Ask not what your government can do for you, but what you can do for yourself and others”
- Progressive Libertarianism
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it cost nothing to be a patriot”
- Mark Twain
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
- George Washington
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
- George Washington
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.”
- Albert Einstein
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
- Mohandas Gandhi
“Education, is the key to freedom from ignorance and oppression.”
- Clif Deuvall
“Drug prohibitionists are like gun prohibitionists, they try to keep something that will always exist away from people because they don’t think they’re competent enough to use it, rather than educate them on its proper safe usage.”
- Stephen Carter
“Go ahead, and have the courage to open that door and to step outside your comfort zone. For though the challenges are many, the rewards are more valuable than you can imagine.”
- Ralph Marston
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
- Ray Bradbury
“Free cheese is only found in mousetraps.”
- Author Unknown
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
– John Quincy Adams
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
- Pericles
“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
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
- Robert F. Kennedy
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
- James Madison
“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.”
- Henry L. Stimson
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
- Robert Heinlein
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
- Bill of Rights Amendment 10
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?”
- Gandhi
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best deceptions are the ones that seem to give the other person a choice: Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma: They are gored wherever they turn.”
- The 31rst law of power
“The poverty of the backward nations is due to the fact that their policies of expropriation, discriminatory taxation and foreign exchange control prevent the investment of foreign capital while their domestic policies preclude the accumulation of indigenous capital.”
- Ludwig von Mises
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”
- Calvin Coolidge
“Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.”
- Lao-tzu
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
- John Quincy Adams
“What’s *just* has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn *belongs* to you – and why?”
– Walter Williams
“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”
- Thomas Sowell
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
- Douglas Adams
“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
- H. L. Mencken
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
- Herbert Spencer
“There is no law of nature that says you have to honor checks that other people write at your expense. You are not slaves — you are slaves only if you choose to submit to slavery. You can repudiate those checks.”
- Kevin Dowd
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
- Thomas Paine
“A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.”
- Latin Proverb
“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“First attempts are often met with discouraging results – these come to test your resolve. Persist through these into the full manifestation of your vision – do not give up.”
- Author Unknown
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
- Murray Bookchin
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. (Do not surrender to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.)”
- Ludwig von Mises
“By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called ‘diversity’ actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. We should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.”
- Ron Paul
“One of the Penalties of refusing to participate in the Political Process, is you end up Governed by Inferiors”
- Plato
“The State has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives.”
- Butler D. Shaffer
“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
- Thomas Paine
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding.”
- Louis D. Brandeis
“Truth is stranger than Fiction, but that is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
- Mark Twain
“The reserve system of banking in which a private central bank issues the public currency at interest means there will always be more debt than money. Every single financial move made by government consists in shifting that debt from one group to the other, usually from the rich onto the poor, which is the definition of a fascistic economic state.”
- Mike Rivero
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much
government.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
- Thucydides
“The consumer, so it is said, is the king…each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get things done that he wants done.”
- Paul A. Samuelson
“Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left — which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of men is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.”
- Author Unknown
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
- Ezra Pound
“To be governed … is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled – by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.”
– Pierre-Joseph
“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
- Douglas Casey
“The reactionary tendencies of both liberals and conservatives today show clearly in their willingness to cede, to the state or the community, power far beyond the protection of liberty against violence. For differing purposes, both see the state as an instrument not protecting man’s freedom but either instructing or restricting how that freedom is to be used.”
- Karl Hess
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom”
- Friedrich Hayek
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
- Bertrand Russell
“A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the police state dictatorship it’s going to get.”
- Ian Williams Goddard
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.”
- Ayn Rand
“There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.”
- Frédéric Bastiat
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
- Author Unknown
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
“If you think the grass is always greener on the other side, perhaps you should spend more time taking care of the grass on your side?”
- Author Unknown
“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they’re open.”
- Author Unknown
“It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.”
- Fredrich von Hayek
“Government can only do something for the people in proportion to what it can do to the people.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.”
- Kurt Cobain
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
- Albert Einstein
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
- Albert Einstein
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
- Abraham Maslow
“If we would all drop the act, cast our egos aside, and approach one another with a respect for individual freedom, this world would be a better place.”
- Stephen Carter
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts.”
- Bertrand Russell
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
- Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
- Albert Einstein
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators.”
- P. J. O’Rourke
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead
”Though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. . . . Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character.”
- Grover Cleveland
”What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
- Aldous Huxle
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
“Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?”
- Albert Einstein
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“The smallest minority on Earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
- Ayn Rand
“The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by those who resist it.”
-Author Unknown