"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced."
— Frank Zappa

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
— George Orwell

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
— George Orwell

"The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free..."
— Utah Phillips

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms."
— Ron Paul

"I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something."
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
— George Orwell (Animal Farm: A Fairy Story)

"...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. "Do you remember," Stevenson said, "that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' " At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes."
— E.J. Dionne

"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.""
— Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning)

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."
— Ron Paul

"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."
— Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)

"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
"
— Dennis Kucinich

"When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters."
— Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America, Volume 2)

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
— Herbert Hoover

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Let the revolution begin."
— Ron Paul (The Revolution: A Manifesto)

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
— Mark Twain

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
— Douglas Casey

"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity."
— Tom Robbins

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
— James Madison

"If you can't convince them with logic, resort to emotion.

"
— Rigo Miller

"It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist."
— Clarence Page

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

""A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,
but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men."
"
— Daniel S. Green (The Perfect Pitch: The Biography of Roger Owens, the Famous Peanut Man at Dodger Stadium)

"The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lose equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue off the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?

But I am done with this creed of corruption.

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame."
— Ayn Rand (Anthem)

""Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to resign from being a country. We can't make it work. We have tried. We have done our best. It is not possible. The problems are insoluble. From midnight tonight, we shall cease trading. The country is now disbanded. We will voluntarily liquidate ourselves. The nation will disperse quietly, a little shamefaced but so what. We had a go.

"Different people have suggested different solutions. Do it this way. Try that. Let me have a go. Nothing works. We are at the mercy of the rich countries. A team of management consultants from the United States could not find the answer, and for not finding the answer, we had to pay them an amount that substantially increased our national debt. We give in, gracefully, but we give in."

And then he imagined himself, quietly and with dignity, putting his papers in his briefcase, bowing to the hushed assembly, returning to clear out his office and going for a walk with his wife along the sea wall. (The Ventriloquist's Tale""
— Pauline Melville

"The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!"
— Herbert Marcuse