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“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President and Five Star General, US Army

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” ― James Madison

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” — Josh Billings

“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” — Abraham Lincoln

“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” — Charles A. Beard

"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another." ― Milton Friedman

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.” — P. J. O'Rourke

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible” — T.E. Lawrence

“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.” ― Thomas Sowell

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” — Thomas Jefferson

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us even when pressed by the demands of inner truth. Men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. And I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having firs spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America “you are too arrogant, and if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and know that I’m God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore,” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” — Martin Luther King

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.” — Albert Einstein

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” — Ayn Rand

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” – Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.” – F.A. Hayek

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property." – Milton Friedman

“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.” – Dresden James

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” – T.S. Eliot

“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)

“Why, of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goering, Nazi Leader

“Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.” — Ron Paul

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

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” — James Madison

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” – James Madison

“When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.” — George Orwell

“Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington.” — Milton Friedman

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” — Frédéric Bastiat

“There is no knowledge that is not power.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” — Albert Einstein

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” — C. S. Lewis

“Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way....but you can never say again that you did not know.” — William Wilberforce

“How fortunate for the leaders that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler

“Those are governed best who are governed least.” — President Thomas Jefferson.

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” — Frederic Bastiat

“The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us even when pressed by the demands of inner truth. Men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. And I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the surrounding cobwebs of ignorance, it shines clear.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi

“I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor.” — Gandhi

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — John Quincy Adams

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something” — Gil Scott-Heron

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” — George Washington

“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity” — Henry Clay

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Reasonable people can disagree over whether or not voluntary charity would be sufficient. It's a mistake, however, to classify coerced 'giving' as 'compassion,' and downright bizarre to accuse those of us who would rely more upon genuine compassion – evidenced by people giving from the goodness of their hearts rather than from a desire to avoid imprisonment – as endorsing a society without compassion.” — Don Boudreaux

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Gandhi

“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

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A crime is defined as any action that damages the person or property of another, a vice is any action that harms one’s own person or property.” — Lysander Spooner

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.” — Elwyn Brooks White

“As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.” — John Stuart Mill

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“There is no security in life, only opportunity.” — Mark Twain

“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

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1816

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." — Thomas Jefferson

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." — Ayn Rand

“It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority,
keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” — Samuel Adams

&ldquot;An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.” — Ron Paul

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” — Plato

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” — Plato

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” — Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” — Albert Einstein

“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” — Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins

“Every child, without exception, has an innate and unquenchable drive to understand the world in which he lives and to gain freedom and competence in it. Whatever truly adds to his understanding, his capacity for growth and pleasure, his powers, his sense of his own freedom, dignity, and worth may be said to be true education.” — John Holt, The Underachieving School

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” — Albert Einstein

“The important thing is never to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” — Patrick Henry

“America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.” — Ron Paul

“The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened.” — Joseph Stalin

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.” — William T. Harris - Former U.S. Commissioner of Education

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” — Aeschylus

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” — David Rockefeller

“You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.” — Bill Clinton, Sep 5, 1998, Dublin, Ireland

“It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the
government from falling into error.” — United States Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” — C.S. Lewis

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Winston Churchill

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” — James Bovard (1994)

“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” — Douglas Casey

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

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” — Frederic Bastiat

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.” — Voltaire (1764)

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.” — Pericles (430 B.C.)

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.” — Mark Twain

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” — Thomas Jefferson

“If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” - Mark Twain

“All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmond Burke

“They have deadly weapons with which to inflict pain on the human body. They know how to bring about horrible deaths. They have clubs with which to beat the body and the head. They have bullets and guns with which to tear holes in the flesh, to smash bones, to disable and kill. They use force, to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do. They will use all that is neccessary to bring you to your knees.” — Eldridge Cleaver

“The trick to surviving failure is to refuse to be disillusioned by it. It is the gradual effects of disillusionment ('retreat after defeat') that sap the will and prevent us from enduring to the end in order to triumph over our challenges. The first step in this process: Don't degrade your failures by stripping them of their spiritual value.
This is why most successful people are actually experts in failure.” — Dr. Peter D’adamo

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” — Murray N. Rothbard

“and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” — John 8:32

“Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concering this individual. One is that he suffers from defects of spontaneity and individuality which may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him that he does not differ essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth.” — Erich Fromm