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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

— Mark Twain



When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

— P.J. O’Rourke



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin



No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

— Thomas Jefferson



No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Gideon Tucker



The most may err as grossly as the few.

— John Dryden



No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

— Immanuel Kant



For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

— Peter Bauer



[...] he won’t believe us, since you can’t make his favorite omelet without breaking heads.

— An anonymous anarcho-capitalist on a collectivist



The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone.

— H.L. Mencken