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But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you-the-social-reformers see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
- — Isaiah Berlin
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
Democracy is the road to Socialism.
- — Karl Marx
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
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.
- — Edward Abbey
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an "inconvenience". We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
- — Frank Zappa
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
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- — P.J. O’Rourke
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
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