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[...] a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles [...] is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
- — Benjamin Franklin
Whatever you tax, you get less of.
- — Alan Greenspan
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- — Edward Langley
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- — Voltaire
More law, less justice.
- — Marcus Cicero
Mayor: "At any rate, you have a bad habit of taking your own course. And that, in a well-ordered community is almost as bad. The individual must subordinate himself to society, or more precisely, to the authorities whose business it is to watch over the welfare of society."
Dr. Stockmann: "Maybe. But what the devil has that to do with me?"
- — Henry Ibsen, in "An Enemy of the People"
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- — Winston Churchill
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
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- — Thomas Paine
The process of social selection that determines each individual's position and income is continuously going on in the market economy. Great fortunes are shrinking and finally melting away completely while other people, born in poverty, ascend to eminent positions and considerable incomes. Where there are no privileges and where governments do not grant protection to vested interests threatened by the superior efficiency of newcomers, those who have acquired wealth in the past are forceed to acquire it every day anew in competition with all other people.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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