[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“As everyone who has read the Marxists critically has not failed to see... the gospel of St. Marx is just the old… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The constitution which emerged from the Assembly after six months of debate—it was passed on July 31, 1919, and ratified by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“The Sanskrit Brihatsamhita, written perhaps in the sixth century, warns, ‘If a Shiva linga, image, or temple breaks apart, moves, sweats, cries,… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.” — UN Special Appointment to Burundi Ahmed Ould-Abdallah 95 Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“The issues the Panthers organized around fifty years ago are still with us. Our justice system is unjust. Police conduct in nonwhite… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image