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The net effect of Clarence Darrow’s great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
- — H. L. Mencken
[...] whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.
- — F.A. Hayek
Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- — Robert Heinlein
Mayor: "At any rate, you have a bad habit of taking your own course. And that, in a well-ordered community is almost as bad. The individual must subordinate himself to society, or more precisely, to the authorities whose business it is to watch over the welfare of society."
Dr. Stockmann: "Maybe. But what the devil has that to do with me?"
- — Henry Ibsen, in "An Enemy of the People"
One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
- — Immanuel Kant
Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- — H. L. Mencken
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- — Honore de Balzac
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find—nothing.
- — Aesop
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