A rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

—David Hume

It is one of the most disheartening spectacles of our time to see to what extent some of the most precious things which England … has given to the world are now held in contempt in England herself.

—Friedrich A. Hayek

We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.

—Benito Mussolini