Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands."

~ Anthony de Jasay  

"They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"[I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."

~ Abraham Lincoln