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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- — Albert Einstein
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
- — John Adams
Democracy is the road to Socialism.
- — Karl Marx
All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established.
- — Aristotle
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
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
- — Clarence S. Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be [...] controlled in everything.
- — F.A. Hayek
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- — Edward Abbey
In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.
- — Michael A. Heilperin
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- — Isaac Asimov
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