“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” Milton Friedman
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.” Barry Goldwater
“There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.” Frederick Bastiat
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
“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, subsidise it.” Ronald Reagan
“There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.” Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” P. J O'Rourke
“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.” Dick Armey
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 4 March, 1861
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” Thomas Sowell
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C. S. Lewis
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” Milton Friedman
“Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.” Harry Browne
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” P. J O'Rourke
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” Ayn Rand
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Voltaire
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” Barry Goldwater
“I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.” Ron Paul, http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul506.html
Source: http://www.thelibertypapers.org
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