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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- — Johann von Goethe
A pessimist asked God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something—the mortality of the optimist."
- — Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil’s Dictionary", 1911
When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
- — H.D. Thoreau
The three stages of government: If it works, tax it. If it still works, regulate it. If it stops working, subsidize it.
- — Ronald Reagan
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
- — Robert Nozick
We’re lucky we don’t get all the government we pay for.
- — Will Rogers
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- — Thomas Jefferson
[...] when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- — Thomas Paine
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
- — Adam Smith
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- — Karl Popper
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