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Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
- — H.L. Mencken
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- — John Marshall
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- — Edward Abbey
Ask not what your government can do for you. Ask what your government is doing to you.
- — David Friedman
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
- — George Henry
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
- — Patrick Henry
To recognize knowledge as ignorance is noble; but to regard ignorance as knowledge is evil.
- — Buddha
We are reduced to the alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
- — Continental Congress on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in 1775
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- — P.J. O’Rourke
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
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