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“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”

Humans Causes Liberty Leader Rights Gains Standing Conviction Annoying Patents Capital Gains

Author:Thomas Frank

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

Ifs Wells Time Liberty Gains Time Management Leisure Poor Richard Leisure Time

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

May Two Motivation Certain Liberty Easier Gains Constant Mindset Fuel Expenses Temporary Uncertain Chimneys

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“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

“When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”

Way Artist Order Loses Liberty Gains Chaos Individuality

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”

Individual Liberty Victory Authority Gains Defeat Rescue Judicial Convicts Individual Freedom

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.”

Ifs Courses Asks Liberty Victory Gains Permission

Book:Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

Source: Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Hard Certain Evil Liberty Special Return Gains Ideals Response Strikes Firm Retreat Always Believe Great Idea Audacity Human Freedom

Author:George W. Bush

“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”

Thinking Government Liberty Economy Economic Gains Inflation Exaggeration Exaggeration Is

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson