​“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.”

— William Cobbett

​“The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.”

— Doug Bandow

“Provided I do not write about the government, or about religion, or politics, or morals, or those in power, or public bodies, or the Opera, or the other state theaters, or about anybody who is active in anything, I can print whatever I want.”

— Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais

“People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.”

— Democritus

“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime — namely, repressive justice.”

— Simone Weil

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”

​— Charles-Louis De Secondat