signatures.txt

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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans 
and concepts, and the world will govern itself. -- Lao-tzu
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Everything the State says is a lie, 
and everything it has it has stolen. --Nietzsche 
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. 
Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to 
be defenders of minorities. -- Ayn Rand
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The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries
to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat 
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying 
to improve it is largely a waste of time. -- H.L. Mencken
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think 
things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions 
and taboos. -- H.L. Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want
merely because you think it would be good for him. –- Robert Heinlein 
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those 
who falsely believe they are free. –- Goethe
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When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is 
a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. –- Gary Lloyd
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The urge to save humanity is almost always 
a false front for the urge to rule. –- H.L. Mencken
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. 
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. –- Barry Goldwater
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own 
happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no 
interference with their persons or property. –- Lysander Spooner
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A petty thief is put in jail. 
A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State. -- Zhuangzi
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The world does not need governing; 
in fact it should not be governed. -- Zhuangzi
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities 
has the power to make you commit injustices. -- Voltaire
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The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law";
that of the individual, "crime."  -- Max Stirner
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. 
Every class is unfit to govern. -- John Dalberg (Lord Acton)
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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as
the man who surrenders every right to the state. -- John Dalberg (Lord Acton)
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, 
is immoral and oppressive. -- Auberon Herbert
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - in groups, parties, 
nations and epochs, it is the rule.  -- Nietzsche
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, 
one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -- Emma Goldman
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the
State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. -- Albert J. Nock
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed 
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an 
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken
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The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. -- Tacitus
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe 
while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the 
sign of a civilized society. -- Mark Skousen 
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; 
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more,
it will lose that, too. -- Somerset Maugham
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The United States is a nation of laws, 
badly written and randomly enforced. -- Frank Zappa
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the 
taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the 
propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, 
is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which 
it got out of its way. -- Henry David Thoreau
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War is the health of the State. –- Randolph Bourne
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be 
controlled and those who have no such desire. – Robert A. Heinlein
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Liberty is something you cannot have unless you are 
willing to give it to others. -– William Allen White
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, 
well-being to misery, must defend without compromise private 
ownership in the means of production. –- Ludwig von Mises
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man... 
even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, 
grasping, and unintelligent. –- H. L. Mencken
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. –- Mao Zedong
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority... 
They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –- Daniel Webster
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Liberty means responsibility. 
That is why most men dread it. -– George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective 
wisdom of individual ignorance. -– H.L. Mencken
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Government cannot make man richer, 
but it can make him poorer. –- Ludwig von Mises
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing 
one can be sure of changing is oneself. –- Aldous Huxley
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The U.S. Constitution may be flawed, but it's a whole lot better than what we have now.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. –- Henry David Thoreau
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Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, 
but by assuming our responsibilities. –- Michael Cloud
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An armed society is a polite society. –- Robert A. Heinlein
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Everything government touches turns to crap. –- Ringo Starr
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Anarchy is order, whereas government is civil war. -- Anselme Bellegarrigue
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Legal justification does not make right 
that which is morally wrong. -- Robert LeFevre
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Government is an association of men who 
do violence to the rest of us. -- Leo Tolstoy
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The State forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal 
scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on 
anything it wants. -- Albert Jay Nock
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There are only two means by which men can deal with 
one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion.  -- Ayn Rand
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Economic history is a long record of government policies 
that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard 
for the laws of economics. -- Ludwig von Mises
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil 
to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau
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Tu ne cede malis sed contra audientur ito.
Do not give into evil, but always oppose it with courage. -- Virgil
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We must be free, not because we claim freedom, 
but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the
agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. --Henry David Thoreau
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. --  Frederic Bastiat
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. -- Ludwig von Mises
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Setting a good example is a far better way to 
spread ideals than through force of arms. -- Ron Paul
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Inflation finances war. -- Ron Paul
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A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to 
choose a new master once in a term of years. -- Lysander Spooner
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There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to 
control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power. -- Joseph Sobran
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At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that
Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is 'the will of the people'
... but the problem changes only superficially. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate
them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that
I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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