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Politics, from the Greek "poly", meaning many, and "ticks", small, annoying bloodsuckers.
- — Dave Barry
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- — Albert Einstein
Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- — Isaac Asimov
Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.
- — Harold Lowman
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- — Lord Acton
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- — Alexis de Tocqueville
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- — John Locke
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
- — Ludwig von Mises
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
- — Mark Twain
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