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“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

Party Liberty Economic Taxes Gains Assuming Debt Spending Libertarian Tendencies Fixed Expenses Libertarianism Pie Free Market Property Rights Fallacy Wealth Of Nations

Book:Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

“Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.”

Liberty Conscience Opposites Assuming Intolerance Patriot Despotism Counterfeit Toleration Withholding

Author:James Madison

“There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.”

Men Humans Matter Responsibility Liberty Assuming Willingness Payment Free Man Tag Being Free Price Tag Personal Matter

Author:James Monroe

“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”

People Enough Character Facts Strong Liberty Roots Aim Assuming Courageous Good Enough Assault Strong Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Alan Keyes

“Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.”

Religion Liberty Fire Conscience Opposites Assuming Selling Pope Indulgence Despotism Counterfeit Toleration Withholding Fagots

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.”

World Mind Heart Dies Energy Liberty Enemy Arms Reflection Assuming Slave Perseverance Creator Preservation Compelled Defiance Hazards Firmness Freeman

Book:The Life and Writings of John Dickinson

Source: The Life and Writings of John Dickinson

“May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”

World May Self Government Freedom Liberty Security Blessing Assuming Superstitions Declaration Of Independence Self-government Deism

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.”

Character Law Nations Justice Liberty Equal Benefits Assuming Ignorant Cruelty Flash Arbitrary Firmness Despots Obstinacy Liberality

Book:The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?”

Social Liberty Progress Assuming Internals Engines Technological Social Progress Combustion Technological Progress

Book:After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

Source: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

“If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.”

Ifs Important Government Wish Liberty Honest Citizens Assuming Forgotten Skepticism

Author:James Bovard

“The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.”

Ifs Lines Liberty Media Assuming Lots Of Money

Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.”

Action Purpose Liberty Opinion Conditions Assuming Justify Contradicting

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Did you find any artists complaining who don't already complain all day long about everything? No. But have you ever met a dealer who thought it was okay? Well, you maybe. It's still the art world. It's meant to be extreme. It's supposed to stand for liberty or whatever but really it's an extremely conservative environment. Why does everyone wear jeans? Because it's practical. To say something is taboo-breaking is to assume you have a clear image of the quality of a dealer. But there are certain dealers who always work this way.”

World Long Art Artist Quality Liberty Environment Okay Assuming Conservative Complaining Meant To Be Dealer

Author:Urs Fischer