Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau

A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Frank Lloyd Wright