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[...] he won’t believe us, since you can’t make his favorite omelet without breaking heads.
- — An anonymous anarcho-capitalist on a collectivist
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- — Albert Einstein
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
- — Adolf Hitler
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
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.
- — Isaiah Berlin
Those who become the leaders of states are ultimately conformists on most crucial issues, and individuals who evaluate information in a rational manner—and therefore frequently criticize traditional premises—are weeded out early in their careers.
- — Gabriel Kolko: Another Century of War?
A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion, an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation of private property owners through expropriation, taxation, and regulation.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Bill of Rights goes too far—it should have stopped at "Congress shall make no law".
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- — Lord Acton
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
- — Benjamin Franklin
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