Since our primitive collective instincts were entrenched within our ancient ancestors thousands of years ago, they tend to be unsuited for our complex modern civilization.
-J. Belleau
If those who oppose liberty continue attempting to replace our evolved morals and traditions with deceitful appeals to savage instincts, they may destroy the framework upon which morality, liberty, and civilization depend.
-J. Belleau
...remember that all the whole of the known world, with the exception of the savage nations, is governed by books alone.
-Voltaire
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
-L. Brandeis
Liberty is generally established with difficulty in the midst of storms; it is perfected by civil discords; and its benefits cannot be appreciated until it is already old
-A. Tocqueville
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion for equality [of condition] made vain the hope for freedom.
-Lord Acton
The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.
-Le Bon
Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in a department of science is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.
-Trotter
When words lose their meaning, people will lose their liberty.
-Confucius
No one is at liberty to attack private property and to say that he values civilization. The history of the two cannot be disentangled.
-H.S. Maine
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own selfish personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stuart Mill
In a country where the sole employer is the state, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
-L. Trotsky
Immerhin hat das den Staat zur Hölle gemacht, daß ihn der Mensch zu seinem Himmel machen wollte.
-Hölderlin
It is significant that that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
-E.H. Carr
Marxism and Fabianism differ in that the former is revolutionary and the latter gradualist; but their conceptions of the new society they hope to create are basically the same.
-Hayek
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-J.S. Mill
