“All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”
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“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
Source: Out of my later years
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
Source: Young Statesman
“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”
Source: The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.”
Source: Leviathan
“Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
Source: Faces in the water
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
Source: The Ever-Present Past
“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations