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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
- — Clarence S. Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial
No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.
- — Adam Smith
Is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else!
- — Epictetus
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- — Thomas Jefferson
No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected.
Moreover, insurance companies promote the development of another "security feature." States have not just disarmed their citizens by taking away their weapons, democratic states in particular have also done so in stripping their citizens of the right to exclusion and by promoting instead – through various non-discrimination, affirmative action, and multiculturalist policies – forced integration. In a natural order, the right to exclusion inherent in the very idea of private property is restored to private property owners.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
- — Milton Friedman
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 "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector [...] the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.
- — Henry Hazlitt
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
- — Murray Rothbard
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