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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." -- Frédéric Bastiat
"The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist." -- William Graham Sumner
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty." -- Ludwig von Mises
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington
"The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of." -- Albert Jay Nock
"There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all." -- Davy Crockett
"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." -- Murray N. Rothbard
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." -- F. A. Hayek
"Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance." - H. L. Mencken
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." -- Aldous Huxley
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." -- George Orwell
"Goodness in man can only grow in a climate of liberty." -- F.A. Harper
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." -- Bertrand de Jouvenel
"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection." -- Butler Shaffer
"Standing armies are standing curses in every country under the sun, where they are more powerful than the people." -- John Trenchard
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -- James Madison
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." -- James Madison
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad." -- James Madison
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. [Beware of] those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to liberty." -- George Washington
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." -- George Washington
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority ... There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry