It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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Murray N. Rothbard
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
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Larken Rose
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
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Thomas Sowell
For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting...
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Stefan Molyneux
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Robert McNamara
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.