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Progressive Libertarian:
"...a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty, as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens" --Thomas Jefferson

"The great object should be to combat the evil... By establishing a political equality among all... By witholding unnecessary opportunities from a few to increase the inequality of property by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches... By the silent operation of laws which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort." -- James Madison

"To establish a joint stock company... for any undertaking merely because such a company might be capable of managing it successfully; or to exempt a particular set of dealers from some of the general laws which take place with regard to all their neighbours, merely because they might be capableof thriving if they had such an exemption, would certainly not be reasonable." --Adam Smith

"In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example... of charters of power granted by liberty." -- James Madison

"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind." --Thomas Jefferson


"luxury relative to economy, is always an evil, a continual cause of misery and weakness; it constantly debilitates by the excessive consumption of some, and the destruction of the produce of labor and industry of others" --Destutt de Tracy

"It is by no means sufficient that the law should recognize the principle of private property and freedom of contract... strong arguements can be advanced that serious shortcomings here, particularly with regard to the law of corporations and patents, not only have made competition work much less effectively than it might have done but have even led to the destruction of competition in many spheres." --F.A. Hayek

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power is derived, and treats him accordingly... to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistant with its own repose, if a few were to live aloof from it... A state which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a more perfect and glorious state, which I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen." --Henry David Thoreau

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