“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.” Lysander Spooner, (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist. Source Reference Lysander Spooner Quote

“There is no difference in principle, … between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.” Jacob G. Hornberger, American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future…

“[T]he suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future… is over. It’s not going to be. It’s going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two things…

“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s only that our social relations, while vital to…

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.” George Savile, (1633-1695) 1st Marquess of…

“So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged ‘good’ can justify it – there can…

“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source Reference John Locke Quote

“If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook,…

“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of…

“[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land.” Justice John Marshal, (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice. Source: McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S….

“Before the creation of the welfare state, immigrants who came to this country were for the most part attracted by America’s reputation as a land of freedom and opportunity. Laws and customs that then prevailed required immigrants to carve out…

“The freemen of America will remember, that it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary, despotic, or military one: but it is very difficult, almost impossible to reverse the matter – very difficult to regain freedom…