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The West is not simply better than non-Western cultures, it is vastly, fundamentally better. Hellenic culture is the only truly human civilization, the only one for which human reason, not animal stultification, is the ideal. We must defend the West's superiority, completely and immediately, or we will lose it forever.

— Greg Swann



Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

— Thomas Jefferson



A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

— Edward Abbey



No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— 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



All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established.

— Aristotle



The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises



Sotien jälkeisenä aikana se, mitä Suomessa saa sanoa, on ollut hyvin tarkkaan säädeltyä. Yhteiskunnallisesta keskustelusta on tullut salatiedettä, johon vain asiaan vihkiytyneiden sopii osallistua. Yhteiskunnallisen keskustelijan nauttima julkinen tunnustus ja arvostus on riippunut suoraan siitä, miten jyrkässä ristiriidassa hänen näkemyksenä ovat intuition, ts. maalaisjärjen, kanssa.

— Jussi Halla-aho



The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frédéric Bastiat



One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

— Mahatma Gandhi