“Yes; truth blends well with untruth. It is one of the maladies of our age, a sign of sheer nervousness, to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.” Norman…

“War, what is it good for? With the same “socialist” elites backing both sides, it’s good for business. It’s good for creating chaos and destruction. It’s good for launching new global organizations, in the aftermath; organizations that exert a level…

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes…known instruments for bringing…

“It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor,…

“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, (1763-1835)…

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re…

“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…

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.” John V. Lindsay, (1921-2000) U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City. Source: The City, by John V. Lindsay, 1969. Source Reference John V. Lindsay Quote

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have… a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.” John Adams, (1735-1826) Founding Father,…

“Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, literary critic. Source: Almansor: A Tragedy, 1823. Source Reference Heinrich Heine Quote

“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard…

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Paine, (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author. Source: Common Sense, February 14, 1776. Source Reference Famous Thomas Paine Quote