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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
- — Otto von Bismarck
Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.
- — Adam Smith
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
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
- — Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government results from too much government.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- — Francis Bacon
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- — Edward Abbey
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
- — Thomas Paine
It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.
- — Murray Rothbard
State interference in economic life, which calls itself "economic policy" has done nothing but destroy economic life.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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