"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

"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

"As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty."
— William A. Niskanen

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
— T.H. White