Tag: Robert Heinlein

“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.”

Joseph Sobran

“They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.”

Edward Snowden

“The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.”

Karl Hess

“Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s tax receipt? Fill out form. Let’s see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

Noam Chomsky

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”

Sam Levenson

“The state is the mafia pretending to be a human rights organizations.”

Dave Smith

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

Ron Paul

“Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Weakening the Government, hampering the use of force in human affairs, is the only way to permit individuals to use their natural freedoms.”

Rose Wilder Lane

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”

Mark Twain

“Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.”

Ludwig von Mises

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”

William S. Burroughs

“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”

Joseph Stalin

“For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press it becomes empowered to rob people by stealth.”

Jeffrey Tucker

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”

William S. Burroughs

“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

Murray Rothbard

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn’t true.”

Craig Murray

“The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Some folks inherit star spangled eyes. Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord. And when you ask them, “How much should we give?” Ooh, they only answer More! more! more!”

Creedence Clearwater Revival

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Democracy says it is acceptable to take money or property from a nonconsenting individual because he is outnumbered.”

Unknown

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”

John V. Lindsay

“If one wants to avoid the recurrence of economic crises, one must avoid the expansion of credit that creates the boom and inevitably leads into the slump.”

Ludwig von Mises

“Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

Thomas Paine

“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.”

Ramsey Clark

“Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

James Madison

“Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity.”

Mother Teresa

“Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.”

Thomas DiLorenzo

“I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“There are three things which I do not want the government choosing for me: my doctor, my school, and my God.”

Doug Newman

“The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.”

Jason Brennan

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.”

Cato

“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.”

James A. Donald

“Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Mao Zedong

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”

Thomas Pynchon

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”

Charles Evans Hughes

“Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners.”

Charlton Heston

“Voluntary association produces the free market – where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.”

Harry Browne

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

Robert A. Heinlein