"Welfare rights are pseudo-rights: They rely on the force of law to take private property for the use of others without compensation and without consent. Public charity is forced charity; it is not a virtue but a vice." -- James A. Dorn V.P. for academic affairs at the Cato Institute, director of Cato’s project on Civil Society Source: Wrapped in the pretense of morality, The Washington Times, August 29, 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.A..Dorn.Quote.8A62
"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Source: Maximen und Reflexionen
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"[N]o one’s ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It’s just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred." -- L. Neil Smith American writer Source: Pallas, 425 (Ton Doherty Associates, Inc. 1993)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/L..Neil.Smith.Quote.8B69
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