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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."– Benjamin Franklin

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." – Thomas B. Reed (1886)

"If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." – Jacob Hornberger (1995)

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J. O'Rourke

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." – George Washington

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." – Mark Twain (1866)

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." – Robert Heinlein

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul." – George Bernard Shaw

"The more restrictions and prohibitions in the world, the poorer people get." -- Lao Tzu

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus, Roman historian

"Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men." --George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)

"The trouble today is that we have too many laws." --John Garner, US Vice-President, 1932

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." --Plato

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." --Also by Plato

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." --Mao Tse-tung

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master." --George Washington

"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom." - Thomas Paine

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, to the Penn State Legislature

"That government is best which governs least" --Thomas Jefferson

"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." --Henry David Thoreau

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson

"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state." --Heinrich Himmler

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Once governments are given the authority to restrict the liberty of some sane adults for what it considers their physical or moral welfare, there is no principled stopping point in terms of what governments will have the authority to prohibit. The consequence will be that virtually anything which anyone holds of most value may become prohibited to them on grounds of its being judged immoral or dangerous to them. There are practically no forms of activity in which sane adults like to engage that others are not able to find reasons to condemn as morally or physically bad for those who engage in them. This ranges from drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco, to eating certain types of food, to not taking exercise, to taking too much, engaging in dangerous sports, practising certain religions, not practising any religion, reading books on science, etc. Unless government draws the line at only prohibiting conduct that harms others against their will, no member of society can be secure in being able to do or have anything they most want and value." --David Conway

"The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings." --Rudolph Rocker

"There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power." --Friedrich A. Hayek

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." --John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." --Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." --Albert Einstein

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." --Mahatma Gandhi

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." --H. L. Mencken

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law, for nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." --Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A, 1921

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." -- Noah Webster

"It is in vain, Sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that Gentlemen want? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick Henry

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." --Daniel Webster

"In the 19th century, it was sufficient to ask who you are. In the 20th century, it was sufficient to show who you are. In the 21st century, you will have to prove who you are."-- Tate Preston, vice president at Datacard Group

"By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments ... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments ...that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity." - John Hospers

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - William E. Borah

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H. L. Mencken

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the "Unknown". When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." -- Henry Kissinger

"Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences." --Author Unknown

"Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better." --Martin Luther King, Jr

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." --Henrik Ibsen

"Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." --Lucy Parsons

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." --Robert A. Heinlein

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." --Malcolm X

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" --Adolph Hitler, April 15, 1935

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -- Martin Niemoller

"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." --Potter Stewart

"Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends." -- Michael Ventura

"Don't put constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone." --Jimmy Durante, 1950

"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." --Mahatma Gandhi

"The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed -- and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits --- would have been quite substantial." --Vin Suprynowicz

"What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word 'We.'" -- Ayn Rand, Anthem

"The Totalitarian system of thought control is far less effective than the democratic one, since the official doctrine promoted by the intellectuals at the service of the state is readily indentifiable as pure propaganda, and this helps free the mind. ...the democratic system seeks to determine and limit the entire spectrum of thought by leaving the fundamental assumptions unexpressed. They are pre- suppposed but not asserted." - C.P. Otero

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Vladimir Lenin

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Helder Camara

"The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice." --Ayn Rand

"Educators have lost sight of the purpose of a liberal education -- to foster the values of freedom and growth in students and, ultimately, to produce good human beings ... Although most educators agree that a liberal education is important, they spend too much time bickering over course requirements and not enough time talking about the qualities those requirements should instill in students. ... Students' educational success should be a measure of how well they listen, read, write, solve problems,empathize with others, and participate in their communities, not how many credits they accumulate. ... All the required courses in the world will fail to give us a liberal education if, in the act of requiring them, we forget that their purpose is to nurture human freedom and growth." -William Cronon In autumn 1998 issue of "The American Scholar"

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." - Bertrand Russell

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." -- Oscar Wilde

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." --Mark Twain