MA one liners, sound bytes, and catch phrases

[MustangGT]

This thread is to collect flashy, stylish, cool sounding one liners, sound bytes, and catch phrases that support MA and/or humiliate the state.

It has to be a brief, catchy line. It has to be easily understandable for Eddie Punchclock. And it has to be something that would sound cool in a 15 second advertisement or sound byte type of clip.

Feel free to quote old stuff or come up with your own.

I'll be the first to offer one:

"I will not rule another, and ruled by another I will not be!"

[PlatypusOfCarnage]

"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil" I'm sure someone's said that before me, though I can't be bothered to find out who.

[Francois Tremblay]

Either you own your own life, or someone else does.

Putting on a uniform does not turn a murderer into a saint.

[Lucian Buckharte]

"Graveyard of the Gods"

[Zhwazi]

I've been keeping a file that I put my favorite short quotes in for a few months and this is a dump of relevant quotes from that.


"More laws, less justice." (Forgot who said it)

"Politicians lie! Don't entrust them with your vote!" (Common sense overheard from a stranger)

"Anything the state can do, the market can do better, faster, and cheaper."

"Ethics is to Politics what Truth is to Lies." -me

"If you want me to die for your country, you die first." -me

"Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?" (Found in "The Patriot" movie with Mel Gibson)

"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." -Lysander Spooner

"If you make peaceful change impossible... you make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Goethe

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." -Aesop

"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." -Robert A. Heinlein

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them." -Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

"Bolt actions speak louder than words." -me, but I'm probably not the first to think that obvious one up, substitute "bolt" for "pump" according to context

[MustangGT]

Good contributions so far, and Z really cmae through. HUZZAH!

[Francois Tremblay]

Yea, keep 'em going barkeep!

[Tmaq]

"The right to own weapons is the right to be free." A.E. van Vogt

My sig quote from Sowell also qualifies, though for the more intellectual types (as opposed to Johnny Lunchbucket and his bowling league).

-Tom

[PlatypusOfCarnage]

That is a very good quote.

[Lucian Buckharte]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" -Your American constitution (for those that are from the states).

[NoDeity]

I poked around and found a few...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~Woodrow Wilson

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883

The extent to which you are responsible for yourself is the extent to which you are free.
- Brad Reddekopp

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
-Emma Goldman

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas Macaulay

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
-H. L. Mencken

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
-Thomas Jefferson

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
-Leo Tolstoy

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
-Henry David Thoreau

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.
-Dr. M.E. Lazarus

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
-Benjamin R. Tucker

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.
-Emma Goldman

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
-Emma Goldman

ANARCHISM:--The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
-Emma Goldman

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.
-Emma Goldman

We see that not only is the emperor naked--he is a murder, tyrant, brigand, liar, and bungler.
-James W. Harris

"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
-Ayn Rand

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
-Ayn Rand

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world – to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
-Ayn Rand

[Lucian Buckharte]

Nice ones, NoDeity.

[Francois Tremblay]

I think we're looking more for catch phrases and sound bytes than quotes, per se. It requires even more condensation, and thus is harder.

[NoDeity]

Fair enough. There are a few nice short ones in my list.

[Tmaq]

"The price of freedom is death" - Malcolm X.

(A variation on Jefferson's "the tree of liberty..." quote, I think).

-Tom