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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

— F.A. Hayek



Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.

— Winston Churchill



An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

— Thomas Jefferson



Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson



What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

— Edward Langley



Man is born free, but he is placed in chains.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau



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



Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy



Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

— Karl Hess



An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson