Thomas Jefferson (美國第三任總統 1801-09):
A government that can give you everything you want, can also take away everything you have.
一個能給你一切的政府也同時能奪去你所有。
同上(Ditto): When government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.
當政府恐懼人民﹐人民就得自由。相反﹐當人民恐懼政府﹐政府就會變得獨裁。
同上(Ditto): A democracy is little more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.
民主只不過是群眾的暴政。百分之五十一的人就可以把百分之四十九的人的權利拿走
同上(Ditto): My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
我從歷史那裡領悟到這個真理﹐就是大多數的不良政權都是來自政府甚麼都要管。
同上(Ditto): The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
事情的自然發展就是﹐人民的自由只會被削弱﹐政府的權力只會變得越來越大
Tacitus (古羅馬的歷史學家和政治家):
The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.
國家越是腐敗﹐法規必然越多。
Friedrich von Hayek (奧地利經濟學家﹐倫敦經濟學院和芝加哥大學教授):
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
政府總是借用危機來剝奪人民的個人自由。
無名士: Where the welfare state marches, the police state is not far behind.
福利制度最終必然演變成極權制度。
Margaret Thatcher (英國首相, 戴塞爾夫人): The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
社會主義福利制度的最大問題就是你們會遲早把別人的錢用光。
Barry Asmus: Politicians can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. Government is not a god. Every dime they spend must first be taken from someone else.
一般政客當他們給我們一些甚麼時﹐都一定要從我們那裡拿走一些甚麼。政府不是上帝﹐他們沒有神奇的力量。他們每花費一分一毫都要從別人的口袋裡拿出來。
Karl Marx (馬克思): Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.
民主制度不能長久的。因為人民一旦知道他們有權決定政府的開支時﹐他們就必定迅速地投票﹐把庫房的錢全送給自己﹐而國家很快就會破產了。
Winston Churchill (邱吉爾): The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
資本主義的最大壞處就是不公平地把財富分配。而社會主義的最大壞處就是平均分配了窮困。
Aesop (依索寓言的作者): We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
我們把小偷處決﹐卻委託了政權給大賊。
George Bernard Shaw (蕭伯納): Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
以下就是民主與非民主制度的分別。民主制度是讓無知的大眾選出政權。而非民主制度卻讓一少數腐敗貪污的人委任掌權者。
John Perry Barlow: Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
依賴政府來保障你的私隱就像叫一個偷窺者來幫你在窗口裝上百葉簾。
James Paul Warburg whose family co-founded the Federal Reserve - while speaking before the United States Senate, February 17, 1950 (美國聯儲局的創辦人之一): We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.
喜歡也好﹐不喜歡也好﹐我們必需要有一個世界政府。問題只是你願意以武力還是自願來引進世界政府。
Edward Abbey (美國作家) 1927-1989: A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
任何愛國人士都必須隨時隨刻保衛國家﹐防止政府的入侵。
Ayn Rand (格林思潘年輕時期的良師益友): The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
當任何人都不願意去面對的話﹐就連一個極明顯的事情也會變得很難解釋了。
同上(Ditto): The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
真理不是屬於全人類的。它只屬於尋找它的人
同上(Ditto): There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
凡事都有兩面﹐對的一面和錯的一面。但中間的一面（騎牆的一派）往往是邪惡的。
