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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
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- — Will Rogers
The world’s problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
- — Julian Simon
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- — Thomas Jefferson
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
- — Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
[...] if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
- — F.A. Hayek
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
- — F.A. Hayek
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
The net effect of Clarence Darrow’s great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
- — H. L. Mencken
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- — Thomas Jefferson
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