The state was made for man, not man for state.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

The best government is that which governs least.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

History is the same story with different costumes.