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No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.

— Adam Smith



What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

— Edward Langley



Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy



War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

— Erasmus



Ihmiset eivät arvosta oikeuksia, vaan etuoikeuksia.

— HL Mencken



Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

— George Orwell, in "1984"



Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain



I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

— Professor Bernardo de la Paz, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlien



Ei ole olemassa mitään niin pahaa, etteivät poliitikot voisi pahentaa sitä.

— Thomas Sowell



Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

— H.L. Mencken