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Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.
- — Pierre Proudhon
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as the right.
- — H.D. Thoreau
Common sense is not so common.
- — Voltaire
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
- — F.A. Hayek
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms—spelling it out as it is—as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a "surplus," this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when "deficits" are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.
- — Deficit disorders, by Ilana Mercer
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
- — Will Rogers
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
- — Milton Friedman
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
- — Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- — Lord Acton
War is the trade of kings.
- — John Dryden
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