"The urgency to save humanity is almost always a mask that hides the urgency to rule it. Power is what all messiahs seek, not the opportunity to serve."

Henry Louis Mencken

"The state should not teach, but should allow teaching. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education."

Frédéric Bastiat

"When a person or company spends more than it earns, it goes bankrupt. When a government spends more than it earns, it sends you the bill."

Ronald Reagan

"That man who learns and learns and does not practice what he knows, is like one who plows and plows and does not sow."

Plato

"I'm not really worried that they want to steal my ideas, I'm worried that they don't have them."

Nikola Tesla

"If the world goes against the truth, I go against the world."

Athanasius

"Live in such a way that you can stare into anyone's eyes and tell them to go to hell."

Henry Louis Mencken

"In a well-governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a poorly governed country, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius

"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you can't criticize."

Voltaire

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."

William Blum

(Former U.S. State Department employee 🇺🇲)

"Interestingly, voters don't feel responsible for the failures of the government they voted for."

Alberto Moravia

"The worst enemy of socialism is not capitalism. It is reality."

Margaret Thatcher

"Men who have greatness inside them don't go into politics."

Albert Camus

"The greater the number of laws and decrees, the greater the number of thieves."

Lao Tse

"If voting would do any good, they wouldn't let us do it."

Mark Twain

Holy Cow! 🐮

"If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists."

Friedrich Hayek

"Nothing is forgotten more slowly than an offense; and nothing more quickly than a favor."

Martin Luther King

"The safest place is a prison cell, but there is no freedom."

Benjamin Franklin

"What a terrible era in which idiots rule the blind."

William Shakespeare