"Man can only derive life and enjoyment from a perpetual search and appropriation; that is, from a perpetual application of his faculties to objects, or from labor. This is the origin of property."
- The Law, Bastiat
"The supporters of the government are divided into three groups - the *knaves* who stand to benefit from the government, the *dupes* who think they are free because they can vote, and those who can see the true situation but can’t or won’t do anything to change it."
- L. Spooner
"I do not know how it happens that nature fails to place within the hearts of men a burning desire for liberty, a blessing so great that when it is lost all evils follow thereafter, and even the blessings that remain lose taste because of their corruption by servitude."
- Boétie
There are always a few, who never become tamed under subjection, possessed of clear mind, are not satisfied, like the brutish mass. Even if liberty has entirely perished from the earth, they would invent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how well disguised.
"It is truly the nature of man to be free and to wish to be so yet his character is such that he instinctively follows the tendencies that his training gives him. Thus custom becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude."
- The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Boétie