"The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting. The people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps to escape moral responsibility by wailing, 'But I didn't mean this!'

Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name. They must face the full meaning of that which they are advocating or condoning; the full, exact, specific meaning of collectivism; of its logical implications of the principles upon which it is based, and of the ultimate consequences to which those principles will lead. They must face it, then decide whether this is what they want or not."

Ayn Rand, Forward to Anthem April 1946 Anniversary Edition

From the 5000 Year Leap by Skousen:"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch OR senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression."

Skousen was quoting Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748