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If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.

— Kelvin Throop



No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected.



Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

— Adam Smith



Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

— Murray N. Rothbard



The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

— Max Stirner



Today, half a century later, the Chicago—Friedman school, without having essentially changed any of its positions, is regarded as right-wing and free market. Indeed, the school defines the borderline of respectable opinion on the political right, which only extremists cross. Such is the magnitude of the change in public opinion which public employees have brought about.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



Whereas states disarm their citizens so as to be able to rob them more surely (thereby rendering them more vulnerable also to criminal and terrorist attack), a natural order is characterized by an armed citizenry. This feature is furthered by insurance companies, which play a prominent role as providers of security and protection in a natural order. Insurers will encourage gun ownership by offering lower premiums to armed (and weapons-trained) clients.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

— Murray N. Rothbard



A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

— Benjamin Franklin



A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

— Ramsey Clark