Social Philosophy: Liberty: a few quotes

Here are a few quotes that I stumbled upon while doing a few quick information surf actions. For my fellow Libertarian types:

"Did you learn how to think or how to believe?"

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"The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say,
the state should be our servant and not we its slaves."
- Albert Einstein

"Civilization is the progress of a society toward privacy. The
savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his
tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from man."
- Ayn Rand, 1943

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are
injurious to others."
- Thomas Jefferson, in Notes on the State of Virginia

"If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to
worry about the answers."
- Thomas Pynchon

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Kierkegaard

"All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the
indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of
their inherent natural rights. For happily the govenment of the United
States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance,
requires only that they who live under its protection should demean [bear]
themselves as good citizens."
- George Washington, "To the Jewish Congregation, New Port, RI", 1790

"Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or
stretched?"
- Thomas Jefferson

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of
one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that
oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the
beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
- H.L. Mencken

"Government is not reason.
Government is not eloquence.
It is force.
And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master"
- George Washington, first US President

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency."
- Eugene McCarthy




"Go to work,
send your kids to school,
follow fashion,
act normal,
walk on the pavement,
watch tv,
save for your old age,
obey the law,

Repeat after me: I am free."




"they tell you cannabis is illegal because you are easier to control and enslave without cannabis." -Anonymous


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