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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- — George Bernard Shaw
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 could print all the money you wanted, and steal all the money you wanted, couldn’t you manage to stay out of debt?
A pessimist asked God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something—the mortality of the optimist."
- — Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil’s Dictionary", 1911
We are reduced to the alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
- — Continental Congress on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in 1775
Things run in this country in spite of the government, not because of it.
- — Will Rogers
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
- — Robert Nozick
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
- — Herbert Spencer
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- — Thomas Jefferson
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