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I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a Congressman.

— Will Rogers



Whereas states disarm their citizens so as to be able to rob them more surely (thereby rendering them more vulnerable also to criminal and terrorist attack), a natural order is characterized by an armed citizenry. This feature is furthered by insurance companies, which play a prominent role as providers of security and protection in a natural order. Insurers will encourage gun ownership by offering lower premiums to armed (and weapons-trained) clients.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



That government is best which governs least, because the people govern themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson



If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

— Milton Friedman



Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

— H.L. Mencken



Is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else!

— Epictetus



You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith



A government big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

— Barry Goldwater



Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

— Euripides



The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

— Mark Skousen