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Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d’etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man’s innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
- — Ludwig von Mises
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
- — Karl Marx; Attr. in Engels, letter to C. Schmidt, 5 Aug 1890
A sword never kills anyone; it is a tool in the killer’s hands.
- — Seneca
For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.
- — Peter Bauer
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
- — Milton Friedman
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic
- — John Maynard Keynes
Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- — Lord Acton
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
- — Edward Abbey
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- — Mark Twain
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be [...] controlled in everything.
- — F.A. Hayek
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