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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

— Milton Friedman



There’s always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

— Tim Robbins



When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

— Thomas Paine



Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

— Edward Abbey



There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

— John Adams



Syysliikennekauden merkittävät tapahtumat liittyvät bussiliikenteeseen. Bussi-Jokerin ensimmäisen hankesuunnitelman kirjoittamisesta on ehtinyt vierähtää kymmenen vuotta. Nyt on aika juhlia maaliintuloa. Erityiskiitos kuuluu kaikille pitkän matkan projektissa mukana olleille. He ovat nähneet Jokerin niin tarpeelliseksi, ettei periksi ole annettu, vaikka työn lopullinen toteutuminen on viivästynyt alkuun suunnitellusta.

— YTV-liikenteen asiakaslehti Hyppää kyytiin 3/2006



If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

— Clarence S. Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial



A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

— Edward R. Murrow



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

— Daniel Webster



Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

— Albert Einstein