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They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people’s money.
- — Margaret Thatcher
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Genius can only breathe free in an atmosphere of freedom.
- — J.S. Mill
An old woman is riding a crowded bus and has to stand with her heavy packages. Finally, someone in front of her gives up a seat and so she grabs it. "Thank God," she says.
A man in the seat behind her says "Excuse me comrade, but this is an atheist society. You should say "Thank Stalin," not "Thank God.""
"Of course you are right," the old woman says. "Thank Stalin." She is silent for a moment, then says: "Comrade, I have just had a terrible thought: What shall we say when Stalin dies?"
The man behind her replies "In that case I think we can say "Thank God"."
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- — Lord Acton
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
Mayor: "At any rate, you have a bad habit of taking your own course. And that, in a well-ordered community is almost as bad. The individual must subordinate himself to society, or more precisely, to the authorities whose business it is to watch over the welfare of society."
Dr. Stockmann: "Maybe. But what the devil has that to do with me?"
- — Henry Ibsen, in "An Enemy of the People"
Whereas states disarm their citizens so as to be able to rob them more surely (thereby rendering them more vulnerable also to criminal and terrorist attack), a natural order is characterized by an armed citizenry. This feature is furthered by insurance companies, which play a prominent role as providers of security and protection in a natural order. Insurers will encourage gun ownership by offering lower premiums to armed (and weapons-trained) clients.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
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