| Author |
Quotes |
| A J Liebling | Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? |
| Accius | Let them hate, so long as they fear. |
| Adlai E Stevenson | Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. |
| Adlai E Stevenson | The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. |
| Aeschylus | The man whose authority is recent is always stern. |
| Aeschylus | In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. |
| Aesop | Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
| Aesop | Enemies promises were made to be broken. |
| Al Capone | You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. |
| Alan Coren | Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. |
| Albert Jay Nock | The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. |
| Albert Jay Nock | The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung. |
| Albert Jay Nock | It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. |
| Albert Jay Nock | Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class. |
| Albert Jay Nock | There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. |
| Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing. |
| Albert Pike | A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. |
| Alexander Herzen | It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. |
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