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Any twelve people who can’t get themselves out of jury duty are not my peers.



People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

— Frédéric Bastiat



The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.

— Edmund Burke



The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

— Winston Churchill



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Today, little is left of this ethic of private property and its anti-government vigilance. Although they now take place on a much grander scale, governmental appropriations of private property owners are overwhelmingly regarded as legitimate. There is no longer a general public opinion that regards government as an antisocial institution based on coercion and unjust property acquisitions, to be opposed and ridiculed everywhere and at all times on principled grounds.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises



I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln



All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke



The statist looks at a problem and always sees a gun as the only solution – the force of the state, the brutality of law, violence and punishment. The anarchist – the endless entrepreneur of social organization – always looks at a problem and sees an opportunity for peaceful, innovative, charitable or profitable problem-solving.

— Stefan Molyneux