The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Good men don’t serve in the army. Good iron doesn’t get turned into nails.

Chinese saying

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Oscar Wilde

To want leaders and at the same time want to be free is to want the impossible. It’s necessary to choose one or the other: to be free, entirely free, denying all authority, or to be slaves perpetuating the domination of many by one man.

Ricardo Flores Magon

I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

Étienne de la Boétie

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices

William James

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false

Paul Valéry

The entire European Economic Union is a house of cards, with governments all loaning money to each other in order to hide their true deficits from potential bond purchasers. Bailing out Greece with imaginary fiat currency is not a solution to a problem, but only a brief respite, designed so that those at the top of the political class can finish their looting before escaping the collapse.

Stefan Molyneux