"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session." - Ambrose Bierce

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Menkin

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, (and thence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with a whole series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" - H. L. Menkin