“There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.” Quote by Barry Goldwater
“Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.” NeedsChildrenReasonBigsMotherFightingLibertyBrotherForgottenIllLibertarianLuxuryLibertarianismNastyMistakenViewpointsProtecting Her Author:Mary Ruwart
“A caged canary is safe but not free.” LibertySafeLibertarianLibertarianismCagedCanaries Author:Walter E. Williams
“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".” GovernmentLibertyAcceptingCitizensTreatsLibertarianCriminalsTerroristSurrenderSuspectsLibertarianismFrighteningCitizenryPrice Of Freedom Author:Joseph Sobran
“Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.” HumansSchoolForceLibertyFailingPerformancesInnovationCompetitionLibertarianEnterpriseSparksLibertarianismPublic School Author:Bob Lutz
“The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."” YearsMindSchoolLibertyCreativityExerciseAuthorityIntellectualSentencesLibertarianCompromiseCrushDestroyingIndividualismTwelveLibertarianismInquiryPublic SchoolMind ControlCollectivismMeekSchool SystemSmashingSubservience Author:Walter Karp
“The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.” PeopleRunningLibertyRevolutionBecomingLibertarianRunning AwayLibertarianismBecoming More Book:The freedom philosophy Source: The freedom philosophy
“Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.” Has BeensPhilosophyWould BeIndividualCausesLibertyMovementMajorityLibertarianSignificantMinoritiesHopelessLibertarianismSupporterComprehensionEnergeticLibertarian Party Author:Leonard Read
“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.” LooksStatesFormEvilSpeakLibertyMankindEffectsDirectSightMajorityLaysLibertarianFavorsVisibleLibertarianismLegislationInterventionBeneficialIndirect Author:A. V. Dicey
“It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.” IfsWellsMeanSufferingEvilEnjoyLibertyJudgmentRewardsObviousLibertarianLibertarianismPenaltiesFreedom To ChooseGood Judgment Author:Ben Moreell
“There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.” StatesBodyNationsLibertyOrganizationLibertarianLibertarianismReactionariesNothing NewInterventionism Author:Spruille Braden