Friday, October 5, 2012

Liberty Quotes


"A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him."-- Alexis de Tocqueville [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alexis.de.Tocqueville.Quote.E9FA

"If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity."-- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author Source: " 'Extremism' or The Art of Smearing", Chapter 17 of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.66C0

"Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals."-- Lew Rockwell [Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.] (1944- ) Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Source: September 11 and the Anti-Capitalistic Mentality: An Interview with Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr By: Myles Kantor, FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 12, 2002
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24253
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lew.Rockwell.Quote.9217

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