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A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation.
Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state.
- — William F. Rickenbacker
It's lucky we don't have government clothing stores, restaurants, and churches, because then you'd be saying "Where will the poor get their clothing, food, and religion if we end government involvement in these areas".
- — Jacob G. Hornberger
The inevitable scarcity of the factors of production, the uncertainty of future conditions for which production has to provide, and the necessity of picking out from the bewildering multitude of technological methods suitable for the attainment of ends already chosen those which obstruct as little as possible the attainment of other ends — i.e., those with which the cost of production is lowest. No allusion to these matters can be found in the writings of Marx and Engels. All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering.
- — Ludwig von Mises
An old woman is riding a crowded bus and has to stand with her heavy packages. Finally, someone in front of her gives up a seat and so she grabs it. "Thank God," she says.
A man in the seat behind her says "Excuse me comrade, but this is an atheist society. You should say "Thank Stalin," not "Thank God.""
"Of course you are right," the old woman says. "Thank Stalin." She is silent for a moment, then says: "Comrade, I have just had a terrible thought: What shall we say when Stalin dies?"
The man behind her replies "In that case I think we can say "Thank God"."
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
Democracy is the road to Socialism.
- — Karl Marx
If this be treason, then let us make the most of it.
- — Patrick Henry
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
- — Immanuel Kant
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