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To be a persecuted genius, you not only have to be persecuted; you also have to be right.
- — Isaac Asimov, paraphrased
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
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!"
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
- — Herbert Spencer
Social cooperation under the division of labor is the ultimate and sole source of man's success in his struggle for survival and his endeavors to improve as much as possible the material conditions of his well-being. But as human nature is, society cannot exist if there is no provision for preventing unruly people from actions incompatible with community life.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- — Edward Langley
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
- — Oscar Wilde
Only sheep need a shepherd.
- — Atheism Wasteland, slogan
More law, less justice.
- — Marcus Cicero
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