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Inflation has been irresistibly attractive to sovereigns because it is a hidden tax that at first appears painless or even pleasant... It is truly taxation without representation.
- — Milton Friedman
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
- — Jacob Hornberger
Taxation is theft; Conscription is slavery; War is murder.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- — Thomas Sowell
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
- — Thomas Sowell
Moreover, insurance companies promote the development of another "security feature." States have not just disarmed their citizens by taking away their weapons, democratic states in particular have also done so in stripping their citizens of the right to exclusion and by promoting instead – through various non-discrimination, affirmative action, and multiculturalist policies – forced integration. In a natural order, the right to exclusion inherent in the very idea of private property is restored to private property owners.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
- — Murray Rothbard
But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you-the-social-reformers see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
- — Isaiah Berlin
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
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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