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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be [...] controlled in everything.
- — F.A. Hayek
That government is best which governs not at all.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
- — Tacitus
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
I cannot convince myself that there is anyone so wise, so universally comprehensive in his judgment, that he can be trusted with the power to tell others: "You shall not express yourself thus, you shall not describe your own experiences; or depict the fantasies which your mind has created; or laugh at what others set up as respectable; or question old beliefs; or contradict the dogmas of the church, of our society, our economic systems, and our political orthodoxy."
- — Jake Zeitlin
For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.
- — Hans F. Sennholz
The most may err as grossly as the few.
- — John Dryden
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B", "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
- — H.L. Mencken
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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