Quotes of the Week

As the state grows, one’s sense of self-ownership is destroyed, liberty is traded for "security," the human spirit diminishes.
– Eric Englund

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
– G.K. Chesterton

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
– Ludwig von Mises

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
– H.L. Mencken

The answer to environmental problems isn't to expand the reach of government, but to shrink it.
– Harry Browne