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The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
When the fox administers justice, the chickens will always be found guilty.
- — Cat Farmer
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation.
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
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- — Euripides
Social cooperation under the division of labor is the ultimate and sole source of man's success in his struggle for survival and his endeavors to improve as much as possible the material conditions of his well-being. But as human nature is, society cannot exist if there is no provision for preventing unruly people from actions incompatible with community life.
- — Ludwig von Mises
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
- — Thomas Paine
The inevitable scarcity of the factors of production, the uncertainty of future conditions for which production has to provide, and the necessity of picking out from the bewildering multitude of technological methods suitable for the attainment of ends already chosen those which obstruct as little as possible the attainment of other ends — i.e., those with which the cost of production is lowest. No allusion to these matters can be found in the writings of Marx and Engels. All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering.
- — Ludwig von Mises
All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- — James Madison
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- — George Orwell
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