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When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.
- — Thomas Paine
The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion.
- — Edmund Burke
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else’s expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
- — F.A.Hayek
Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
- — Milton Friedman
To be a liberal is to have realized that a special privilege conceded to a small group to the disadvantage of others cannot, in the long run, be preserved without a fight (civil war): but that, on the other hand, one cannot bestow privileges on the majority, since these then cancel one another out in their value for those whom they are supposed to specially favor, and the only net result is a reduction in the productivity of social labor.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Most of these amazing intrusions into personal liberty have occurred over the past 90 years, since the introduction of the income tax. They have been accepted by a population helpless to challenge the endless expansions of State power – and yet, even though most citizens have received endless pro-State propaganda in government schools, a growing rebellion is brewing. State predations are now so intrusive that they have effectively arrested the forward momentum of society, which now hangs before a fall.
- — Stefan Molyneux
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- — Thomas Jefferson
War is just one more big government program.
- — Joseph Sobran
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