From kqb@whscad1.att.com Wed Nov 24 08:58:41 1993 Received: from att.att.com (gw1.att.com) by freenet.victoria.bc.ca for /freenet/system/bin/m2mbox /freenet/home//17/ub774/mbox (4.1/1.39) id AA21117; Wed, 24 Nov 93 08:58:41 PST Message-Id: <9311241658.AA21117@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> From: kqb@whscad1.att.com Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 11:48 EST Original-From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) To: att!freenet.victoria.bc.ca!ub774 (R. Kent Cowan) Subject: More Lib Quotes Mr. Cowan, I just scanned the libquotes I had before I received your voluminous listing and found several that were not in your list. Perhaps you would like to add some of them? I have appended them below. Kevin Q. Brown INTERNET kqb@whscad1.att.com or kevin_q_brown@att.com ---- The more the government does, the better libertarianism looks. Utopia is not an option. If a thousand people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. If a billion people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing. Bob Leone The meek shall inherit the Earth / The BOLD shall inherit the Stars! Mark Venture It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress. David Friedman, _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_ For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future! Adolph Hitler, 1935 A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. Alexander Tytler, 18th century Scottish historian A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. from "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic", by Alexander Fraser Tyler In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation. James Madison One man with courage is a majority. Thoreau Next time you see a lie being spread or a bad decision being made out of sheer ignorance, pause, and think of hypertext. K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation I think, therefore I'm dangerous. First they took the fourth amendment. I said nothing because I don't deal drugs. Then they stole the sixth amendment. I was silent because I know I'm not guilty. When they came for the second amendment, I kept quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all. Tim Freeman ? (tsf@cs.cmu.edu) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke I swear by my life and the love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged" (Ayn Rand) The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. Alexis de Tocqueville If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. Orson Scott Card Life may at times be boring, but is it more fun to be dead? Alcor Goldwater's Law: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away." From each according to his contract, to each according to his contract. Tom Isenberg (?) Politicians are like diapers -- they should be changed often, and for the same reason. Bert Bruner? What is politically defined as economic 'planning' is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials. Thomas Sowell We should measure progress not by how many laws can be passed but by how little governing people need. Jeff Chan, on Libernet Commercials here have dancing cats, singing raisins and a little man driving a boat in a toilet. And then they tell you, "Don't use drugs." Yakov Smirnoff Nice guys only finish last if they think that because they're nice, they can get away with being stupid. Alan Barksdale Relying on government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Barlow, co-founder of EFF, in CACM, June 1992 I prefer a small government which may permit some evil to a large government which promotes evil at my expense. Michael Lee (mlee@esd.dl.nec.com) A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, 1801 hardcore signature virus: "As a juror in a Trial by Jury, you have the right, power and duty to acquit the defendant if you judge the law itself to be unjust." The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between taxpayers and tax consumers. David Boaz, CATO Institute. Recipe for Messiah Flambe: Obtain one Lamb 'o God. Garnish with aproximately 90 vegetables, and seal up tightly with Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Allow them to stew in their own juice for 51 days, then sear quickly using a wood fire. Serves one media circus. --Carl Havermist Leave the land of the fee and the home of the slave! Join the Atlantis Project, the organization that is creating the country of Oceania. Eric Klien If you have nothing to hide and did nothing wrong then you have absolutely nothing to lose by keeping quiet. Someone on MindVox What we seek is not the overthrow of the government but a situation in which it gets lost in the shuffle. Traditional libertarian poster Don't say 'Gun Control' -- say 'Victim Disarmament' Frank Ney Non Serviam. ----