Quotable Quotes

Men in authority...will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER

Mystical references to “society” and its programs to “help” may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
THOMAS SOWELL

An inevitable consequence of socialism is the division of society into two groups: those who are consuming government “services” and those who are paying for them.
LEE ROBINSON

We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
WILLIAM L. COMER

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance.
HENRY MILLER

Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.
D.H. LAWRENCE

The fact that all citizens have an interest in the common provision of some services is no justification for anyone's claiming as a right a share in all the benefits. It may set the standard for what some ought to be willing to give, but not for what anyone can demand.
F.A. HAYEK

But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
JOHN STUART MILL

I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
BRIAN S. WESBURY

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent.
JOSEPH SOBRAN

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
AUBERON HERBERT

The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.
JAMES A. DONALD

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