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"I keep having to tell my democrat friends, libertarians aren't racist, in fact we're "less racist" than you! Not only do Libertarians not hate blacks, Mexicans, Indians...... but Libertarians don't even hate rich white people!" ~Michael Shanklin

"They keep us fighting over how to make our cage better, I just want to get rid of the cage." ~Michael Shanklin

"Halliburton is about as private as the Post Office and Amtrak. Subsidies ruin any chance at free and competitive markets. This coupled with inflated no-bid contracts indicates that these "companies" were more about government control than free market/private businesses. This is a form of economic corporatism (or as Mussolini called it, economic fascism), where government gets in bed with big business, using a company logo to divert attention from the coercive backing that funds it (the government)." ~Michael Shanklin

"Just because libertarians don't own conglomerate, oligopolized media networks, just because multinational corporations don't approach us for their lobbying interests doesn't mean this is a disadvantage. We need to flip that logic around and realize it's the greatest core competency towards libertarianism, Our main competitive advantage. It should be our main selling point! It means true libertarians can't be bought!" ~Michael Shanklin

"I love it when statists say that if we had a libertarian society, things would be chaotic (meaning they at least acknowledge the fact that Freedom is not what we have lived under), then they turn around and blame everything on us (meaning they also believe that our society is or was in charge which is completely absurd). How can they even have the mindset where they believe we are AND are not in a free society?!? The truth is, statism has always ruled the earth and the problems we are facing are due to coercion as a whole, not the lack thereof. Most people would much rather watch American Idol, NCIS, sports.... than research Austrian Economics or anarcho-capitalism. There's simply no incentive structure for people to educate themselves. What a dilemma....so the statism continues, and grows...and Freedom falsely takes the blame for the oligarchs repeated failures.... and the apathetic voters suck it up." ~Michael Shanklin

"I want to make it so the government can't stop people from marrying, and so the government can't force other people to accept other people's marriages. No more benefits for married couples, no more government monopolization of marriage, no more forced acceptance of others marriages. That IS Freedom!" ~Michael Shanklin

‎"Not only am I for the separation of church and state, I'm for the separation of society and state" ~Michael Shanklin

"Michigan is 2nd to last in unemployment, but in the top 5 on the list for # of unions." ~Michael Shanklin

"Look at all the people who buy into the two(one) party system. They really believe "their" team is good and the other team is bad....THEY'RE ALL BAD! Government is nothing but force, how do people expect it not to be corrupted? Not only that, there is no incentive for government to improve. The government can't stop extremists, it can't stop the immigrants, and it can't give everyone health care. The only thing government can do well is go to war and make us poorer while oligopolizing every industry to corporate socialism." ~Michael Shanklin

"I'm a philosophically permanent, particularly proud, passionate, property protecting, perpetual, pure and proficient peacemonger!" ~Michael Shanklin

Michael Shanklin's Favorite Quotes:

1. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

2. America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. –James Bovard

3. War is just one more big government program. –Joseph Sobran

4. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)

5. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. –Benjamin Franklin

6. One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)

7. If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)

8. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O'Rourke

9. The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. –Tacitus

10. Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

11. No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain (1866)

12. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein

13. The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)

14. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. – Thomas Jefferson

15. The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. – Mark Skousen

16. 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. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

17. The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)

18. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. –James Bovard (1994)

19. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson

20. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

21. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Goethe

22. When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. –Gary Lloyd

24. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H.L. Mencken
25. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken
26. The power to tax is the power to destroy. – John Marshall
27. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. –Edward R. Murrow
28. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. –Mark Twain
29. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley
30. Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. –Thomas Paine
31. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
32. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. – Voltaire
33. There's never been a good government. – Emma Goldman
34. Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. –Montesquieu
35. Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it. –Cullen Hightower
36. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. – Joseph Sobran (1995)
37. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. –P.J. O'Rourke
38. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 BC)
39. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
40. Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you. – Joseph Sobran (1990)
41. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Mao Zedong (1938)
42. There never was a good war or a bad peace. –Benjamin Franklin (1773)
43. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken
44. Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. – Ludwig von Mises
45. Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. – Andre Marrou
46. Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. – Harry Browne
47. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
48. When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will. –Fredric Bastiat, early French economist
49. Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. – Ludwig Mises
50. The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. – Nick Nuessle, 1992
51. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. –John Locke, 1690
52. The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. – Ayn Rand
53. They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? – Paul Harvey 8/31/94
54. The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk". –Harry Browne
55. Why doesn't everybody just leave everybody else the hell alone? – Jimmy Durante
56. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. – Henry David Thoreau
57. No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? – Thomas Sowell
58. The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. – Lao Tsu
59. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. – Mohandas Gandhi
60. Force always attracts men of low morality. – Albert Einstein
61. A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot – because the first leads inevitably to the second. – Harry Browne
62. It is not charity if it's at the point of a gun. – Unknown
63. When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? – Marilyn French
64. There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. – Frédéric Bastiat
65. Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. – F. Lee Bailey
66. Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat
67. Communism is like one big phone company. – Lenny Bruce
68. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. – Edmund Burke
69. It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country. –Stephen T. Byington
70. We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. –William L. Comer
71. When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. – Charles Evans Hughes
72. If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one. –Robert LeFevre
73. Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. – Ludwig von Mises
74. The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
75. That government is best which governs least. – Henry David Thoreau
76. I love my country far too much to be a nationalist. –Unknown
77. I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire
78. Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. – Walter Williams
79. The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. – Frédéric Bastiat
80. The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens – even if you don't own a gun yourself. – Harry Browne
81. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
82. Patriotism means loving our country, not the government. – Michael Cloud
83. One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. – Mohandas Gandhi
84. Live and let live. – Friedrich von Schiller
85. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable … – H. L. Mencken
86. Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens. – Ludwig von Mises
87. Everything government touches turns to crap. – Ringo Starr
88. You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad – in fact, to do anything it wants. – Harry Browne
89. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. –Henry Ford
90. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. – Martin Luther King Jr.
91. The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. – Ludwig von Mises
92. Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers. – Patrick J Buchana
93. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
94. Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. – Otto Von Bismark
95. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. –Helen Keller
96. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. – Bernard Baruch
97. Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) – Gore Vidal
98. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle
99. Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. –Gerald Barzan
100. Politicians never accuse you of "greed" for wanting other people's money – only for wanting to keep your own money. – Joseph Sobran
101. All socialism involves slavery. – Herbert Spencer
102. The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. – Harry Browne
103. Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free. –Harry Browne
104. Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them. – Walter Mondale
105. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato (427-347 B.C.)
106. Give a good man great powers and crooks grab his job. – Rick Gaber
107. Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims. –Donald Boudreaux, Chairman, George Mason University Department of Economics
108. For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. – Harry Browne
109. The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. – Thomas Sowell
110. For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. – Gore Vidal
111. The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, thevoluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. – Henry Hazlitt
112. The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran
113. There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. – Thomas Sowell
114. Politicians, like diapers, have to be changed frequently – and for the very same reason. –Anonymous
115. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. –Thomas Sowell
116. If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working. – Thomas Sowell
117. … so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. – Voltairine de Cleyre
118. The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. – William E. Simon
119. Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters. – Leonard E. Read
120. Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right. – Josiah C. Wedgwood
121. Central planning will eventually destroy individual liberty by concentrating all political power in one person or in a committee; furthermore, it will eventually end our prosperity by laying the dead hand of state control on the economy. – Robert M. Thornton
122. The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone. – Justice Louis Brandeis
123. It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning. – Ben Moreell
124. There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation. – Spruille Braden
125. Throughout forty centuries of human experience, price controls at their best have always been a miserable failure. At their worst, they have led to famine and bloodshed – to defeat and to disaster. – Irving S. Olds
126. Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance. – Henry Hazlit
127. Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. – Ayn Rand
128. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. – John Henry Boetker
129. "Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. 'Cause I'm the taxman." – George Harrison, (From song "Taxman" on The Beatles album Revolver 1966)
130. The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects – his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity. – Henry Hazlitt
131. When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics." – P.J. O'Rourke
132. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. – Ron Paul