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The difference between liberalism and socialism is that liberals will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a liberal community.
- — David D. Boaz
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
- — Milton Friedman
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- — Thomas Jefferson
To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation.
- — Daiell’s Law, a take-off on Felson’s Law
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- — Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- — Thomas Sowell
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- — Edward Langley
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
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, as much as for the right.
- — Henry David Thoreau
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. [...] This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
- — Alan Greenspan
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