Étienne de La Boétie

"The dictator does not consider his power firmly established until he has reached the point where there is no man under him who is of any worth. ... This method tyrants use of stultifying their subject…"

"The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude at the Ludwig von Mises Institute"

"Étienne de La Boétie: Against Voluntary Servitude – Discourse on the fall of tyrants"

"Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity."

"Friendship ... receives its real sustenance from an equality that, to proceed without a limp, must have its two limbs equal."

"Ending Tyranny Without Violence by Murray N. Rothbard"

"Discours de la servitude volontaire, translated and with an introduction about its reception"

"The mob has always behaved in this way—eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted, and dissolutely callous to degradation and insult that cannot be honorably endured."