[Liberty Australia]

If you have any quote suggestions regarding liberty & tyranny, which you would like to be added to the sites quote engine - please do share.

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Also please make sure you endeavor to confirm the source of the quote as well before posting. There are many quotes that are actually false attributions. Citing the relevant material would be helpful.

[Blizzard]

Is there a list of the quotes that are already on the website?

[MichaelC]

Originally Posted by Blizzard

Is there a list of the quotes that are already on the website?

That's a good idea. Here we go.

The "private sector" of the economy is the voluntary sector, the "public sector" is the coercive sector. – Henry Hazlitt

"The plans differ; the planners are all alike..." – Frederic Bastiat

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion." – Harry Browne

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. – Thomas Jefferson

Any society that would give up liberty to gain security, deserves neither and will lose both. - Benjamin Franklin

The authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. - Friedrich A. Hayek

I fear for our nation. Nearly half of our people receive a government subsidy. We have debased our currency to the point that loyal citizens no longer trust it. – Roman Senator

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. – US Congressman Ron Paul M.D.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. - Thomas Paine

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. – H.L Mencken

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. – Lao Tsu

The aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and clamouring for safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

A wise and frugal government which leaves men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson

We shall not take from the mouth of labour, the bread which it has earned. - Thomas Jefferson

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

[Blizzard]

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson

"When the government fears people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny" - Thomas Jefferson

[Blizzard]

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them" - Voltiare

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" - James Madison

[MichaelC]

"Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property."
~ Frédéric Bastiat

(HT: Benjamin Marks)

[capitalism]

'Capitalism'

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Red Heat

[HenryDavis]

I found a list of good quotes (holy grail) here;

http://www.libertarianquotes.com/quotes1.html

[Sukrit]

Good list of anti-war quotes here:
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/201...ar-quotes.html