"It has been said that the greatest threat to our liberty is from well-meaning, and almost imperceptible encroachments upon our personal freedom." -- John Louis Coffey (1922- ) Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Source: Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove, 695 F.2d 261, 272 (1982) (dissent) cert. denied 464 U.S. 863 (1983).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Coffey.Quote.2734
"Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure." -- L. Neil Smith American writer Source: The Probability Broach, 129 (Tor 1980).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/L..Neil.Smith.Quote.2372
"But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups." -- Robert Higgs (1944- ) American economic historian, economist of the Austrian School Source: The Myth of “Failed” Policies, The Free Market, June 1995.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Higgs.Quote.22DF
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