"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself."
HELMUT SCHOECK

"If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized."
LYSANDER SPOONER

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
FREDERICK BASTIAT

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
THOMAS JEFFERSON

"It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts."
LYSANDER SPOONER

"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities."
ROBERT NOZICK

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
THOMAS JEFFERSON

"Socialism in its contemporary watered down form is little more than envy disguised as principle."
MARTIN POT

"...The State is the organisation of robbery systematised and writ large. The state is the only legal institution in society that acquires its revenue by the use of coercion, by using violence and threat of violence on its victims. The state is, therefore, a centralized, regularised organisation of theft"
MURRAY ROTHBARD

"The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage."
WALTER WILLIAMS

"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic."
H. L. MENCKEN

"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. MENCKEN

"Conservatives and liberals too often hope to use government to evade responsibility for their own problems. Just blame government for not using its power the way it should have."
HARRY BROWNE

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
ERICH FROMM

"What's *just* has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn *belongs* to you -- and why?"
WALTER WILLIAMS

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Finally, one of our critics realizes in practical terms (albeit accidently, I'm sure) that nature offers better incentive than government when it comes to encouraging people to become productive members of society."
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger upon an article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
JAMES MADISON

"When I am king you will be first against the wall, with your opinion which is of no consequence at all."
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle."
ALEXIS DE TOCQUIVILLE

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I had nothing to hide.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I had never been arrested.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't like guns.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"In a society obsessed with arranging every detail of existence, the unintended is ominous."
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd."
ALAN ASHLEY-PIT

"Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress."
DR. JAMES RANDI

"If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools."
WILLIAM PENN

"A frontal assault on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession, their ignorance."
AUTHOR UNKNOWN