Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
I have always believed that government had a limited capacity to do good and a virtually infinite capacity to do harm…
Neil Hamilton
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
A fanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
All history is one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
William Graham Sumner