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War is the trade of kings.

— John Dryden



The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.

— Edmund Burke



The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

— H.L. Mencken



Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

— Frederich Nietzsche



All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca



Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

— Marcus Cicero



There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

— Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged



A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

— Daniel Webster



Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

— Thomas Jefferson



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