In a market society the proprietors of capital and land can enjoy their property only by employing it for the satisfaction of other people's wants. They must serve the consumers in order to have any advantage from what is their own. The very fact that they own the means of production forces them to submit to the wishes of the public. Ownership is an asset only for those who know how to employ it in the best possible way for the benefit of the consumer. It is a social function.

-Ludvig Von Mises

 

Save a fool from his folly and you will people the world with fools.

-Herbert Spencer

 

….whoever desires liberty, should understand these vital facts, viz.: 1. That every man who puts money in the hands of a “government”(so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will. 2. That those who will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to resist their demands in the future.

-Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

 

What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others.

-Aristotle (attributed)

 

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist flag or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

-Albert Einstein September 1933

 

If I could know that a man were coming to my house with the certain intent of doing me good, I should run for my life.

-Henry David Thoreau