In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles de Gaulle
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
- Charles Bukowski
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
- Max Stirner
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.
- Harrry Truman
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
- Benjamin Disaraeli
Taking my guns away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell, "fire!" in a crowded theater.
- Peter Venetoklis
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- P.J. O'Rourke
It is error alone which needs support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidates promising the the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a Democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritial faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage.
- by Fraser Tyler, English historian - Written while the U.S. was still a British colony
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
- Barry Goldwater
Whoever lays a hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
- P.J. Proudhon
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuble on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Abigail Adams
This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt the Younger, British prime minister
Out forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
- Fletcher Knebel, historian
The state is not armed with superior wit of honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe air after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
- Henry David Thoreau
The democrats are the ones who will give you a loan. The republicans are the ones who will garantee you a loan. The Libertarians are the ones who will leave you alone.
- Cal Ludeman, Minnesota state representative
Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C.S. Lewis
We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
I still believe there is not a man in this country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too. Not the way this government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.
- Will Rogers
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Ghandi
The free state offers what a police state denies -- the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
- Justice William O. Douglas, 1953.
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