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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.

— Frédéric Bastiat



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

— Thomas Jefferson



Government begins at the end of the gun barrel.

— Chairman Mao



If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

— Jacob Hornberger



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



Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to rap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson



It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.

— Adam Smith



Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

— Daniel Webster



Man is born free, but he is placed in chains.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau



The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

— Will Rogers