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Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.
- — Hans F. Sennholz
[...] 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
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- — Benjamin Franklin
That government is best which governs not at all.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate "given" resources -- if "given" is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these "data." It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.
- — F.A. Hayek
Once the principle of government is admitted, any notion of restraining government power is illusory. Even if, as liberals have proposed, a government limited its activities to the protection of existing private property rights, the question of how much security to produce would arise. Motivated by self-interest and the disutility of labor, but with the power to tax, a government agent's answer will invariably be the same: To maximize expenditures and to minimize production. The more money one can spend and the less one must work, the better off one will be.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
- — Murray Rothbard
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- — Lord Acton
No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected.
The Bill of Rights goes too far—it should have stopped at "Congress shall make no law".
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