Theodore Dalrymple

We are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

(Dr. Stockmann, in "An Enemy of the People")

Dwight Eisenhower (Farewell Address)

The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

Jacob Burckhardt 

We are only concerned here with such minds and hearts as cannot fall victim to common boredom, which can carry through a train of thought, and have imagination enough to be able to do without the concrete imaginings of others or, if they do turn to them, are not enslaved, but can keep their own integrity.

Lew Rockwell

The reformers here and abroad are widely under the impression that the liberty they seek for their societies can be imposed in much the way that socialist systems of old were imposed. ... Genuine liberty is not just another form of government management. It means the absence of government management.

Aldous Huxley  

The most important Manhattan Projects of the future will be vast government-sponsored enquiries into what the politicians and the participating scientists will call ‘the problem of happiness’—in other words, the problem of making people love their servitude.

Thomas Sowell 

In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators.
Educational institutions created to pass on to the next generation the knowledge, experience and culture of the generations that went before them have instead been turned into indoctrination centers to promote whatever notions, fashions or ideologies happen to be in vogue among today's intelligentsia.

H.L.Mencken   

Injustice is relatively easy to bear;  what stings is justice.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Herbert Spencer

The ultimate effects of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. 

Alexander Pope 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien 
As to be hated needs but to be seen.
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.