Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. – Hubert H. Humphrey

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. – Friedrich August von Hayek

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. – Henry David Thoreau