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There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
- — F.A. Hayek
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- — Albert Einstein
First of all, libertarians must develop a clear class consciousness, not in the Marxian sense, but in the sense of recognizing that there exists a clear distinction between taxpayers (the exploited) and tax consumers (the exploiters).
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- — Alexis de Tocqueville
Once the principle of government is admitted, any notion of restraining government power is illusory. Even if, as liberals have proposed, a government limited its activities to the protection of existing private property rights, the question of how much security to produce would arise. Motivated by self-interest and the disutility of labor, but with the power to tax, a government agent's answer will invariably be the same: To maximize expenditures and to minimize production. The more money one can spend and the less one must work, the better off one will be.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
- — John Milton
Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- — Mark Twain
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- — Lord Acton
My body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm [...] it is I who suffers, not the state.
- — Mark Twain
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