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No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Gideon Tucker



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



Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

— Milton Friedman



Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

— P.J. O’Rourke



What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

— Ludwig von Mises



He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.

— Thomas Paine



All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established.

— Aristotle



All socialism involves slavery.

— Herbert Spencer



Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B", "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H.L. Mencken



[...] when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

— Thomas Paine