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If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

— Adam Smith



Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

— Robert A. Heinlein



Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

— Nikita Khrushchev



The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means.

— Vladimir Bukovsky



No nation was ever ruined by trade.

— Benjamin Franklin



Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

— Benjamin Franklin



Whenever an overall breakdown of a monetary or financial system occurs, return to gold always restores order, revives confidence and brings back prosperity.

— Donald Hoppe



Asking an anarchist how every conceivable existing public function could be re-created in a stateless society is directly analogous to asking an economist what the economy will look like down to the last detail 50 years from now. What will be invented? How will interplanetary contracts be enforced? Exactly how will time travel affect the price of a rental car? What megahertz will computers be running at? What will operating systems be able to do? And so on and so on.

— Stefan Molyneux



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



With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

— F.A. Hayek