These are just the first few quotes from his extensive list. Visit Eric Odom’s blog to see them all.
# A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
# America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. – James Bovard
# War is just one more big government program. – Joseph Sobran
# Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)
# They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
# One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)
# If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
# Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke
# The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus
My favorite:
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others” — William Allen White
George Bernard Shaw was a socialist.
Then again, so was Orwell.