Jacob G. Hornberger Quotes

• Si no eres libre para elegir de forma equivocada e irresponsable, no eres libre en absoluto.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Libertarianism

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• En contra de la opinión popular, la Constitución no era -ni es- una concesión de derechos a los ciudadanos. Por el contrario, la Constitución es un "enredo de alambre de espino" diseñado para interferir, restringir e impedir a los funcionarios del gobierno el ejercicio del poder político.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Ejercicio, Derechos, Gobierno

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• Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Home, Government, Car

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• For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Libertarian Party, Long

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• Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money. Everyone decides what to do with his own money. No income tax. No IRS. No government grants or assistance to anyone. All charity is voluntary. It's called freedom. It's a peaceful, harmonious way of life, one that Americans once believed in.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Simple, Government, Peaceful

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• El verdadero patriota examina las acciones de su propio gobierno con una vigilancia incesante. Y cuando su gobierno viola la moralidad y la rectitud asociadas a los principios de libertad individual y propiedad privada, se levanta inmediatamente en oposición a su gobierno.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Principles, Morality

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• [D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Believe, Government

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• Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Medio, Gobierno, Derecho

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• By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  School, Government, Political

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

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  Hate, America, Self

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• Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.

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  Irs, Taxation, Slavery

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• There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Philosophy, Differences, Principles

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• The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Liberty

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• A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

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  Teenager, Government, Law

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• The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Blind Spots, Understanding, Principles

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

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  War, Drug, Matter

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• Existe la percepción común de que hay dos posturas libertarias alternativas sobre la inmigración: fronteras controladas por el gobierno y fronteras abiertas. Nada más lejos de la realidad. Sólo hay una posición libertaria sobre la inmigración, y esa posición es la inmigración abierta o las fronteras abiertas.

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  Government, Two, Perception

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• Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.

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  People, Understanding, Regulation

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• There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence.

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  Latin, War, America

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• The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

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  Lying, Government, Iron

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• The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.

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  Real, Woe, Empires

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• From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

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  Media, People, Gold

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• History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.

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  Military, People, President

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• The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Christian, Believe, Views

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• Todos y cada uno de los estadounidenses pueden exclamar: "Nada justifica lo que hicieron en New York y Washington", ni siquiera las bombas que nuestro gobierno ha lanzado sobre ellos durante diez años o el embargo que ha causado la muerte de tantos niños. Por supuesto, eso es cierto... La cuestión es simplemente aceptar la realidad y un hecho fundamental de la vida: Cuando los gobiernos hacen cosas malas a la gente, la gente a veces toma represalias.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  New York, Children, Acceptance

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