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One can acquire property either through homesteading, production, and contracting, or else through the expropriation and exploitation of homesteaders, producers, or contractors. There are no other ways.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
- — Demosthenes
More law, less justice.
- — Marcus Cicero
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
- — Adam Smith
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
- — George Orwell, in "1984"
Mayor: "At any rate, you have a bad habit of taking your own course. And that, in a well-ordered community is almost as bad. The individual must subordinate himself to society, or more precisely, to the authorities whose business it is to watch over the welfare of society."
Dr. Stockmann: "Maybe. But what the devil has that to do with me?"
- — Henry Ibsen, in "An Enemy of the People"
When I was a kid, I was told anyone could be become president. Now I’m starting to believe it.
- — Will Rogers
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
- — Thomas Sowell
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
- — Thomas Jefferson
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