Quotes, Vol. I

I've always kept quotes around, but now that I'm becoming a more "serious" blogger, I think I should start keeping them around here... Here's a few to start:

"People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge."

- Thomas Sowell

“Only when the fountains of government abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and only then did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.” have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world."

- Guglielmo Ferrero, 1898

"Libertarianism is the radical notion that you don't own other people"

More to come!