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War is the health of the state.

— Randolph Bourne



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



I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

— Thomas Jefferson



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



Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

— Pierre Proudhon



Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington



The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

— William Douglas



If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

— Milton Friedman



I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

— Malcolm Forbes



Totalitarismi on pakotettava hallitsemaan väkivallalla, koska tällöin se paljastaa itsensä. Jos se onnistuu hallitsemaan pelkällä pelolla, väärinajattelijoita yhden kerrallaan vaientamalla, ihmiset luulevat elävänsä vapaudessa ja yhteiskuntaamme riivaava syöpä saa kasvaa rauhassa.

— Jussi Halla-aho