Tag: Robert Heinlein

“The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”

Emma Goldman

“Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.”

Mark Thornton

“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”

H. L. Mencken

“The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.”

Niccolo Machiavelli

“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Robert A. Heinlein

“To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

Confucius

“What is the difference between a taxidermist & a tax-collector? The taxidermist only takes your skin.”

Mark Twain

“If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.”

Edward Snowden

“Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”

Robert A. Heinlein

“If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.”

Noam Chomsky

“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

“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”

William O. Douglas

“The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.”

Henry Hazlitt

“Central planning doesn’t work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.”

Bill Bonner

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”

Benjamin Franklin

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”

H. L. Mencken

“It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law.”

Thomas Hobbes

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

Robert A. Heinlein

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

Noam Chomsky

“Anything called a ‘program’ is unconstitutional.”

Joseph Sobran

“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.”

Alan Greenspan

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”

George MacDonald

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.”

Karl Hess

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”

Aeschylus

“If you look at the drug war from an economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel.”

Milton Friedman

“A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

Plato

“Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.”

G. Edward Griffin

“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened, and why the world blew up around them.”

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.”

Ludwig von Mises

“You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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

John Adams

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

Robert A. Heinlein

“The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.”

James Bovard

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Benjamin Franklin

“A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged ‘need’ or relieve some alleged distress.”

Henry Hazlitt

“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

Voltaire

“The idea that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure for crime is more crime.”

H. L. Mencken

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

Robert A. Heinlein

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”

Donald James

“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.”

William Appleman Williams

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

John 8:32

“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”

Voltaire

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Edward Snowden

“Democracy can’t work. Democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

Banksy

“Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.”

Toby Young

“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”

Thomas Paine

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”

Edmund Burke

“Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.”

Alan Watts

“No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.”

Robert A. Heinlein