“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”

-- Robert Houghwout Jackson, Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

Friedrich A. Hayek 

"Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and at the critical moment obtained the support of the many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done."
-- Friedrich A. Hayek, 1944 [ "The Road to Serfdom," Chapter 10, Planning and Democracy]

Henry Hazlitt 

"... there is a passion built into a very large number of men to rule over others. In established democracies this takes the form of candidates for office determined to outbid their rivals in promising handouts or other favors to pressure groups in their districts at the expense of some unnamed minority."   - Henry Hazlitt ("Is Politics Insoluble?" - P. 117)

~The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.
-- Henry Hazlitt

 

Patrick Henry

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we can not be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference in having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"  --Patrick Henry

Robert Heinlein

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
-- Robert Heinlein

Hubert H. Humprey

       "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." - Hubert H. Humphrey

Thomas Jefferson

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

"[A] wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.  The people themselves, therefore, are its only
safe depositories."

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”  

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated."

~"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."

~~“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”  

Louisville Alderman Dan Johnson

I don’t care whether it’s fair or not.  We’re going to do it anyway.

Louisville Alderman Dan Johnson, regarding a taxpayer-funded arena, as quoted by Ron Gambrell 1/5/02

President Lyndon B. Johnson

"We are going to try to take all of the money that we think is unnecessarily being spent and take it from the 'haves' and give it to the 'have nots' that need it so much." 

- President Lyndon B. Johnson (in a speech on January 15, 1964)

Keep and Bear Arms

"Attempting to solve social and moral problems with legislation is like putting deodorant on when you really need a shower."
 From Keep and Bear Arms

John F. Kennedy

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy.