– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
– Ingrid Weir
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
– Robert Byrne
– Voltaire
– Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
– Johann Georg von Zimmermann
– Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
– Kahlil Gibran
– Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
– Andrea Canaan
– Stan Getz
– Evelyn Waugh
– Lord Chesterfield
– Marquis de Sade
– Samuel Goldwyn
– C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
– C. S. Lewis
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
– William Dugger
– Confucius
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005