Liberty Quotes

"Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you." -- Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) Source: The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Author
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"Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk." -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist, stage director, and poet
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