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The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
- — Robert Nozick
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
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- — Thomas Sowell
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread.
- — Thomas Jefferson
We are reduced to the alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
- — Continental Congress on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in 1775
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- — John Locke
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
- — George Orwell, in "1984"
It seem to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
- — F.A.Hayek
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
- — John Adams
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