“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
Noam Chomsky
“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”
Sam Levenson
“The state is the mafia pretending to be a human rights organizations.”
“Men should not petition for rights, but take them.”
Thomas Paine
“Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.”
Frank Zappa
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Charlton
“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.”
“Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time. When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Frédéric Bastiat
“Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.”
“Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based “philosophy,” which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it “progressive”.”
Larken Rose
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
H. L. Mencken
“The State is the major enemy of mankind.”
Murray Rothbard
“Kid’s heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they’re totally unprepared to do anything. They can’t read, they can’t write, they can’t think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.”
“Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.”
Walter E. Williams
“Too many voters are already bought — not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.”
Joseph Sobran
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
Thomas Reed
“We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.”
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
William S. Burroughs
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
Joseph Stalin
“For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.”
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
Clarence Darrow
“Forcing people to be generous isn’t humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.”
Harry Browne
“Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?”
John Taylor Gatto
“Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.”
