Quotes of the Week

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

A nation that expects gov't... to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life & liberty
–William Niskanen

The plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery.
– Alan Watts

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed... by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins.
– H.L. Mencken

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us.
– Oscar Wilde

The mob has many heads, but no brains.
– Thomas Fuller

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
– Irving Kristol