Hundreds if not thousands of zealots seeking ever to create universal harmony and understanding, have offered their particular theology as the truth … - Robert LeFevre

But history shows repeatedly the madness of crowds and the irrationality of majorities. The only conceivable merit relating to majority rule lies in the fact that if we obtain monopoly decisions by this process, we will coerce fewer persons than if we permit the minority to coerce the majority. But implicit in all political voting is the necessity to coerce some so that all are controlled.

It is strange that many believe they cannot control themselves, but they can control others.

I carry no brief in favor of the criminal. That is why I carry no brief in defense of those in government. Setting a thief [the government] to catch a thief doubles the amount of loot stolen.