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When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.



It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

— G.K. Chesterton



He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

— Ludwig von Mises



Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

— Edward Abbey



From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

— F.A. Hayek



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



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

— Ramsey Clark



Sociologists are in the same boat. They are funded by the State, and so they cannot hope to be objective about State power. This is for many reasons, not least of which is laying themselves open to the charge of hypocrisy for taking State money and then correctly identifying the State as a violent institution. Also, the State is their only source of funding. We can expect more objectivity from an advertising company.

— Stefan Molyneux



I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

— Thomas Jefferson



Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein