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[...] whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.

— F.A. Hayek



What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

— Ludwig von Mises



If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

— William Penn



Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

— Honore de Balzac



Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

— Lord Acton



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

— Barry Goldwater



The three stages of government: If it works, tax it. If it still works, regulate it. If it stops working, subsidize it.

— Ronald Reagan



No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson



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

— Mark Skousen



The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.

— George Orwell, in "1984"