Liberty Quotes

"The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people." -- Dave Barry (1947- ) Humorist
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"As long as the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting to gain access to the legislature as well as fighting within it." -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848 Source: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1850) http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.734C

"The happiness and prosperity of our citizens is the only legitimate object of government." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President 1811 
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