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I don’t care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.
- — Boss Tweed
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
- — George Orwell, in "1984"
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- — Thomas Jefferson
A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- — Charles de Gaulle
The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion.
- — Edmund Burke
In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.
- — Michael A. Heilperin
Aggression is simply another name for government.
- — Benjamin Tucker
The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.
- — Dave Barry
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