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There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.
- — Robert Nozick
When government offers you something for free, run.
- — Steve Kalafer
War is just one more big government program.
- — Joseph Sobran
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- — H.D. Thoreau
Freedom enables a man not only to do the good things but also to do the wrong things. But no moral value can be ascribed to an action, however good, that has been performed under the pressure of an omnipotent government.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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
Love your country, but never trust your government.
- — Robert Heinlein
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- — Lord Acton
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- — Thomas Jefferson
State interference in economic life, which calls itself "economic policy" has done nothing but destroy economic life.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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