Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

John Stossel

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Max Stirner

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

John Adams

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Penn Jillette

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

Penn Jillette

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jeffrey Kluger

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.

Ludwig von Mises

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

William Shakespeare

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Ben Carson

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

Brian Higgins

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

Richard Daley

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Bruce Rauner

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Luis Gutierrez

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Nancy Gibbs

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Lee R. Raymond

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Bob Ehrlich

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.