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Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

— Euripides



The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.

— Lao-Tse



A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn’t have an air force.

— William Blum



Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

— Seneca



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



The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.

— Edmund Burke



During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell



No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson



New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

— John Locke



If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

— Robert Ringer