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Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an "inconvenience". We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
- — Frank Zappa
War is the trade of kings.
- — John Dryden
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- — Euripides
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- — H.L. Mencken
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- — Winston Churchill
A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion, an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation of private property owners through expropriation, taxation, and regulation.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- — Marcus Cicero
That government is best which governs least, because the people govern themselves.
- — Thomas Jefferson
A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
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