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To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation.
- — Daiell’s Law, a take-off on Felson’s Law
Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.
- — Lord Acton
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- — Bertrand Russell
Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- — Robert Heinlein
Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
- — Adam Smith
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- — Edmund Burke
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.
- — James Bovard
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
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