"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” - H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." - H.L. Mencken
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance." - Murray Rothbard
"It is no crime to be ignorant of philosophy, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be abstruse and of little relevance for life. But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on philosophical subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance." - Me
"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." - Richard Feynman
"Their [the global cooling doomsayers'] most common error is to suppose that the worst will always happen." - Dr. Maddox, Nature, 1972
"Liberty is always freedom from the government." - Ludwig von Mises
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