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Libertarian Quotes

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
Ronald Reagan

“One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”
Thomas Sowell

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Winston Churchill
# Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.



# A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

# America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. – James Bovard

# War is just one more big government program. – Joseph Sobran

# 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 (1814)

# They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

# One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)

# If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)

# Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O'Rourke

# The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus

# Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

# No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain (1866)

# 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 true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)

# Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. – Thomas Jefferson

# The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. – Mark Skousen

# A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

# The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)

# Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard (1994)

# The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson

# Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

# None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Goethe

# When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. – Gary Lloyd

# Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H.L. Mencken

# The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

# It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve. – Henry George

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Tax Data

The top 1% of income earners pay more than the bottom 90% in taxes.
The top 50% pay 97% of all taxes
Tax Foundation