Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991).
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P.J. O’Rourke
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
P.J. O’Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022).
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J. S. Mill
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) ch. 3.
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George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925).
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Frédéric Bastiat
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.
Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (June 1850; Dean Russell, trans., 1950).
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George Santayana
In the best schools, almost all school time is wasted. Now and then something is learned that sticks fast; for the rest the boys are merely given time to grow and are kept from too much mischief.
George Santayana, Persons and Places (1944).