Sometimes, when thinking about 'stuff' I wonder if I'm the only one to have had that thought.
It's nice to think of oneself as an 'Original Thinker' but that potentially puts you in 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' with others who's links to reality are often, at best, tenuous. So when such thoughts I know likely originate else where I try and find the source. The search often leads me to some really great quotations, some quite obscure others less so but often very revealing..
“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
― Friedrich Hayek
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.”
― Friedrich Hayek,
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
― John Jay