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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

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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

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.”

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Book:The Enemies List

Source: The Enemies List

“I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.”

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Author:James Dale Davidson

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

“Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in the problems of retirees and who believes the invisible hand of the market will resolve everything.”

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Author:Alexei Navalny

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

Source: Parliament of Whores-Open Mark

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”