Quotes

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority oj the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.

-- J. S. Mill

Europe seemed incapable of becoming the home of free States. It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their own business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of State -ideas long locked in the breasts of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, -burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man.

-- Lord Acton

Liberalism is no religion, no world view, no party of special interests.
It is no religion because it demands neither faith nor devotion, because there is nothing mystical about it, and because it has no dogmas.
It is no world view because it does not try to explain the cosmos and because it says nothing and does not seek to say anything about the meaning and purpose of human existence.
It is no party of special interests because it does not provide or seek to provide any special advantage whatsoever to any individual or any group.
It is something entirely different..
-- Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

Lupus est homo homini.
--Plautus

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.
-- J. M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, London: Macmillan, 1936, p. 383

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
-- F. A. Hayek

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

Marxism has led to Fascism and National Socialism because, in all the essentials, it is Fascism and National Socialism. 
-- F. A. Voigt