A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. (Anonymous)
I find I agree with nearly all of them (up to one hundred; it'll take days to get through them all). Here, a first sampling of particular favorites.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
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
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. – Mark Skousen
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard (1994)
Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable. – Anonymous
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
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
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself. – Justice Casey Percell
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. – P. J. O'Rourke (1992)
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