Top 120 A.E. Samaan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.”

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52. “Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.”

— A.E. Samaan

53. “Writing history is like holding a conversation across the ages, responding to people long gone and posing questions to individuals yet born.”

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54. “Humans are ideas; and ideas are uniquely human.”

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55. “We Libertarians believe in “Limited Government” precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.”

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56. “Fake News has become an art form.”

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57. “The epitome of white privilege is the luxury of believing that “real communism has never been tried.”

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58. “Thomas More’s Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.”

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59. “Big Government’ is a lot less like a ‘Big Brother’, and a lot more like a mother-in-law.”

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60. “A “centrally planned economy” by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It’s a bureaucratic oligarchy.”

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61. “The 2nd Amendment exists for the same reason “Madame la Guillotine” existed; to cut off the head of a corrupt governing class.”

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62. “Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.”

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63. “Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.”

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64. “The Marxist promise that the state will “wither away” is like the guys promise that he will only insert the tip.”

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65. “People, imperfect and corruptible are society’s building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”

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66. “Madame la Guillotine” is the younger sister, the ideological sibling of the 2nd Amendment; both were conceived of a need to purge overbearing governments.”

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67. “Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.”

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68. “Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.”

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69. “Regulated” rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.”

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70. “There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. “Freedom” and “liberty” no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.”

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71. “Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.”

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72. “If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.”

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73. “Edward Bellamy’s eugenic utopian novel, “Looking Backward” was the inspiration for American Progressivism.”

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74. “Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.”

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75. “Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.”

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76. “Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.”

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77. “Funny, I don’t particularly care for either “laws” or “order”. Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.”

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78. “There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an “Idea Economy”. You cannot centrally plan the “Idea Economy” any more than you can plan fun or spontaneity. Regulations are restraints in an “Idea Economy”. The entrepreneur is either free to experiment or not.”

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79. “If your political theory requires humanity to “evolve”, then you do not have a theory... you have a dream.”

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80. “The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.”

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81. “Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality.”

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82. “Living someone else’s dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life’s aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime; theft of individual worth.”

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83. “Which parts of the Bill of Rights are you willing to surrender just so you can virtue signal your willingness to compromise... to find a middle ground... to be middle of the road?”

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84. “Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is but one thing only: Buy Low – Sell High. Capitalism is what happens when a government allows free association and respects property rights. It is a symptom of liberty.”

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85. “Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.”

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86. “Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.”

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87. “American Progressives can not or will not make the intellectual leap that the “science” in “scientific racism” did not originate with the people they otherwise accuse of not even believing in “science” in the first place.”

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88. “The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.”

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89. “Neither money or the state are the ‘root of all evil’, as both are human constructs. The ‘root’ of all human constructs are, well, humans, the only real source of evil.”

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90. “Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.”

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91. “They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.”

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92. “You can’t get to genocide without first visiting identity politics.”

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93. “The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism’s diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.”

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94. “I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.”

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95. “Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. These were not people that believed in individual liberty. They certainly didn’t believe the individual had the right to chose their own mate freely. They were statists, They were totalitarians at heart.”

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96. “There are those that want “freedom” from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual “liberty.” I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian.”

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97. “There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law’s meaning according to fad and fashion.”

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98. “Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.”

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99. “Individuals can only volunteer their will. The collective has no rights if not by the use of force and coercion. Collectivism is not a collection of individuals; It is the complete denial of the individual and its rights. Socialism is not cooperation of individuals; it is the denial of individual rights and individual dignity.”

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100. “The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.”

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