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Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it’s worst, an intolerable one.
- — Thomas Paine
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- — Abraham Lincoln
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- — John Marshall
A sword never kills anyone; it is a tool in the killer’s hands.
- — Seneca
Only sheep need a shepherd.
- — Atheism Wasteland, slogan
The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
The more the state plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
- — F.A. Hayek
A little girl in a school in USSR was asked to use "communist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat just had a litter of kittens and they are all communists."
A month later the same little girl was asked to use the word "capitalist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat had a litter of kittens and now they are capitalists."
The teacher was shocked and ask what had happened to the kittens. The little girl responded, "Well they have opened their eyes now!"
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.
- — John Locke
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- — Abraham Lincoln
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