Libertarian Party at Colorado State University

Given a herd of stupid fools who are never to be coerced, and who are to keep every one from rising above their own level, and what will you ever get to the end of time except a herd of stupid fools?
-- James Fitzjames Stephen from 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
-- John Adams

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
-- Max Stirner

No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.
-- U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side", I calmly say, Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community.
-- Adolf Hitler on why public schools are great

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it. Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property.... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state.
-- Benjamin Rush on why public schools are great

The secret of the superiority of the state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society...the result desired by the state is a wholly different one than that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
-- Lester Frank Ward on why public schools are great

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board according to the specifications laid down.
-- Edward Ross on why public schools are great

Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth century civilisation, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils to the specifications laid down.
-- Elwood Cubberley on why public schools are great

Let them march all they want, so long as they continue to pay their taxes.
-- Gen. Alexander Haig

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Once you stop fearing the government, the government fears you.
-- Robert D. Graham

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and then take orders; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
-- Charles Bukowski


The American people, rather than being infused with an understanding of what individual freedom means, are indoctrinated from childhood to the grave to pledge allegiance to a flag -- the ultimate golden calf, the false idol.
-- Andy von Sonn


First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight with you,
then you win.
-- Gandhi


If you want to help a little old lady cross the street, that's good. It's an act of compassion. But what if a policeman puts a gun to your head and demands that you walk her across the street? That is coercion. Coercion destroys compassion! The more coercion our laws create, the less compassion Americans will have for each other.
-- Greg Perry


In my view there really is only one solution to government behaving the way government behaves, and that's not to have one.
-- David Friedman


In nothing did the founders of this country so demonstrate their essential naivete than in attempting to constrain government from all its favourite abuses, and entrusting the enforcement of these protections to judges; that is to say, men who had been lawyers; that is to say; men professionally trained in finding plausible excuses for dishonest and dishonourable acts.
-- H.L. Mencken