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They who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Anonymous Greek Proverb

You need power only if you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done. Charley Chaplin

The eyes of our citizens are not yet sufficiently open to the true cause of our distresses. They ascribe them to every thing but their true cause, the banking system; a system, which, if it could do good in any form, is yet so certain of leading to abuse, as to be utterly incompatible with the public safety and prosperity. Thomas Jefferson (June 22^nd, 1819)

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for its handle was made of one of them, and they thought it was one of them. Unknown

Private property […] has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Oscar Wilde

There are two types of people in the world: People who think the government is looking out for their best interest and people who think. Nathan Fraser

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? Frederic Bastiat

Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war. Anselme Bellegarrigue

The only way not to lose a rigged game is not to play. When the ruling classes exempt themselves from the ‘laws’ they expect us to live by, there is tyranny. The political, financial and military complexes have become one interwoven system of corporate fascism based on lies and deceit. It is more vulnerable than people think, as it requires our continued co-operation for it to maintain its illusion of legitimacy. When we choose to stop playing the game we dissolve the façade of presumed authority over us. To destroy a lie, live the truth. Unknown

Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality. Equality, rightly understood leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance. Henri Bergson

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.’ Friedrich Nietzsche

Voting […] has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people’s natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they — the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate — are themselves the government.Robert Higgs

The organizing principle of centralism was necessary only for the individual ruler who, from one place, wanted to dominate larger countries at the same time in order to squeeze interest from them. To this end, they were compelled to appoint ministers to their courts, and to send statesmen to the provinces.
Now one must always keep in mind that this was not necessary for the life of the subjugated peoples, but that this central government was created only by the ruler who conquered power for the purpose of collecting taxes and later influencing peoples opinion in favor of the ruler. Augustin Souchy

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe if the word Freedom should ever be more than an empty political slogan. Wilhelm Reich