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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- — Thomas Sowell
Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- — Albert Einstein
Market interventions will inevitably cause more of the problems they are supposed to cure, which leads to more and more controls and regulations until we finally reach full-blown socialism. If the current trend continues, it can safely be predicted that the democratic welfare state of the West will eventually collapse as did the "people's republics" of the East in the late 1980s. For decades, real incomes in the West have stagnated or even fallen. Government debt and the cost of the "social insurance" schemes have brought on the prospect of an economic meltdown. At the same time, social conflict has risen to dangerous heights.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- — Winston Churchill
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
- — George Washington
It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.
- — Murray Rothbard
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.
- — John Locke
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