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Government begins at the end of the gun barrel.

— Chairman Mao



When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.

— Frédéric Bastiat



Most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson



The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

— Ludwig von Mises



Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

— Mark Twain



War is just one more big government program.

— Joseph Sobran



Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society's economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.

— Ludwig von Mises



The difference between liberalism and socialism is that liberals will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a liberal community.

— David D. Boaz



My body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm [...] it is I who suffers, not the state.

— Mark Twain



Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

— Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu