Aliens Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits…

— Thomas Jefferson

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so…

— Walter Lippmann

Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be…

— George Mason

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall…

— George Mason

“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.…

— Tony Judt

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments…

— Immanuel Kant

Everyone has his own need for public and therefore public should not be artificially imposed on a person.

— Ilkin Santak

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things…

— John Stuart Mill

“There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual,…

— Herbert Hoover

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements…

— John Rawls

“Public life drives out private life. The more political our society becomes (in the broadest sense of ‘political’ — the obsessions, the compulsions of…

— Saul Bellow