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I don’t care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

— Boss Tweed



Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

— George Orwell, in "1984"



Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

— Thomas Jefferson



A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.

— Milton Friedman



In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

— Charles de Gaulle



The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion.

— Edmund Burke



In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.

— Michael A. Heilperin



Aggression is simply another name for government.

— Benjamin Tucker



The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

— Dave Barry