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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

— Nikita Khrushchev



Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

— Edward Abbey



Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest.

— Mark Twain



The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

— Ludwig von Mises



Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

— P.J. O’Rourke



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

— Thomas Jefferson



War is the health of the state.

— Randolph Bourne



War is the trade of kings.

— John Dryden



Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

— Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead vs. United States, United States Supreme Court, 1928



An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson