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When I was a kid, I was told anyone could be become president. Now I’m starting to believe it.

— Will Rogers



War is the health of the state.

— Randolph Bourne



Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

— Herbert Spencer



The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson



A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

— Everett Dirksen



The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

— Henry Hazlitt



An old woman is riding a crowded bus and has to stand with her heavy packages. Finally, someone in front of her gives up a seat and so she grabs it. "Thank God," she says.

A man in the seat behind her says "Excuse me comrade, but this is an atheist society. You should say "Thank Stalin," not "Thank God.""

"Of course you are right," the old woman says. "Thank Stalin." She is silent for a moment, then says: "Comrade, I have just had a terrible thought: What shall we say when Stalin dies?"

The man behind her replies "In that case I think we can say "Thank God"."



All Governments, including the worst on earth and the most tyrannical on earth, are free Governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

— Lysander Spooner



With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

— F.A. Hayek



[...] 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