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Lataa tästä linkistä uusi lista lainauksia. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread. — Thomas Jefferson 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 If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. — Edward Abbey A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde To be a liberal is to have realized that a special privilege conceded to a small group to the disadvantage of others cannot, in the long run, be preserved without a fight (civil war): but that, on the other hand, one cannot bestow privileges on the majority, since these then cancel one another out in their value for those whom they are supposed to specially favor, and the only net result is a reduction in the productivity of social labor. — Ludwig von Mises How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. — Abraham Lincoln Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Man is born free, but he is placed in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold. — Hans F. Sennholz