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Market interventions will inevitably cause more of the problems they are supposed to cure, which leads to more and more controls and regulations until we finally reach full-blown socialism. If the current trend continues, it can safely be predicted that the democratic welfare state of the West will eventually collapse as did the "people's republics" of the East in the late 1980s. For decades, real incomes in the West have stagnated or even fallen. Government debt and the cost of the "social insurance" schemes have brought on the prospect of an economic meltdown. At the same time, social conflict has risen to dangerous heights.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- — Democritus
One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
- — Barry Goldwater
All cruelty springs from weakness.
- — Seneca
To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation.
- — Daiell’s Law, a take-off on Felson’s Law
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- — Honore de Balzac
The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted. Then they have to stop voting. Why stop? Let us continue voting. The European Union is what Americans would call a shotgun marriage.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
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