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When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

— Thomas Paine



Aggression is simply another name for government.

— Benjamin Tucker



The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

— Mark Skousen



I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

— Thomas Jefferson



What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

— Thomas Jefferson



A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

— Daniel Webster



The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

— Frédéric Bastiat



A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel



The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means.

— Vladimir Bukovsky



Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

— F.A. Hayek