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  • "Everyone says, 'You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar'. My question is, 'Who the hell wants to attract flies in the first damn place'?" - Angela Jones

  • "Everyone is a somebody to someone somewhere." - Rebecca Iocca

  • "Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." -Ludwig Von Mises

  • "The truth is only dangerous to Liars. That is why governments fear it" - Rebecca Iocca

  • "I don't believe in ism's. I believe in me." - from the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

  • "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood..." - James Madison, in "Federalist Paper Number 62"

  • "If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." - Jacob Hornberger

  • "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Von Goethe

  • "[T]he lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself." - James Wolcott

  • "Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace." - Rod Serling

  • "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is somone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be master." - Ayn Rand

  • "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms ..." - Adolph Hitler

  • "When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." - Pastor Martin Niemöller

  • "Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced and education pursued" - P.J. O'Rourke

  • "Politics is taking money away from people who don't support you to give to people who do" - Alfred Regnery, Jr.

  • "To attempt to cure a vice by calling it a disease and a criminal act is to certainly assure that it becomes a disease and a crime." - Antonio Escohotado

  • "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw

  • "Freedom is not an illusion and it is not relative to different realities no more than 2+2=4. It is pure and constant any adulteration of it and it can no longer be called freedom." - unknown

  • "Government wants power, not responsibility. It will lie by claiming to be responsible in order to dupe the innocent and ignorant into giving up their freedom and prosperity." - Rebecca Iocca

  • "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein

  • "The so-called safety net is a fiction designed by the depraved to palatize the enslavement of the gullible for the benefit of the depraved." - Alvin Lowi

  • "Clearly the biggest monopolist of all is the U.S. government. No competition is allowed, the quality of output is continually falling, the prices are continually rising and the consumer is treated shabbily." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

  • "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt

  • "Since socialism does not deliver the goods like bread and automobiles in large numbers and in high quality, why does anyone believe that the practice of medicine is an exception." - William L. Anderson

  • "Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone." - Harry Browne

  • "Expecting government to protect liberty is like expecting a fox to protect the chickens." - Foster Morrison

  • "They have the usual Socialist disease; they have run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

  • "Acting responsibly doesn't mean living your life by someone else's rules. It means accepting the consequences of your own acts." - Harry Browne

  • "If poverty could be eradicated with minimum-wage laws, everyone in the the world would be rich. All that legislators would have to do is raise the minimum-wage to match what they make. Come to think of it, why haven't they?" - Jacob Hornberger

  • "Paper is poverty... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." - Thomas Jefferson

  • "The definition of freedom is not complicated. Freedom means that which the government does not control. You are free when the government cannot steal your income, when it cannot tell you what to say or with whom you may or may not associate. You are free when the government cannot take your kids and send them to far-flung wars to kill and be killed. You are free when you control your life, your property, your church, your business, and your future. You are free when the government cannot inflate away your savings, tax away your profits, lay waste to your dividends by regimenting corporate life, or control how much of what you buy and sell and from where." - Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr., in "The Work of Freedom"

  • "Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property." - Ayn Rand

  • "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" - John Locke

  • "Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place" - Frederic Bastiat

  • "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" - John Locke

  • "It is a good thing for leaders that men don't think" - Adolf Hitler

  • "Economics is the balancing of infinite demand with finite resources" - unknown

  • "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - unknown

  • "An appeaser is the one who feeds the beast in the hopes of being the last one eaten." - Winston Churchill

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