Not-so-random quotes

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
- Friedrich Hayek

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
- Benjamin Franklin

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
- George W. Bush