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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
- — Edward R. Murrow
To be a liberal is to have realized that a special privilege conceded to a small group to the disadvantage of others cannot, in the long run, be preserved without a fight (civil war): but that, on the other hand, one cannot bestow privileges on the majority, since these then cancel one another out in their value for those whom they are supposed to specially favor, and the only net result is a reduction in the productivity of social labor.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Today, half a century later, the Chicago—Friedman school, without having essentially changed any of its positions, is regarded as right-wing and free market. Indeed, the school defines the borderline of respectable opinion on the political right, which only extremists cross. Such is the magnitude of the change in public opinion which public employees have brought about.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
- — Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy is the road to Socialism.
- — Karl Marx
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
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.
- — Henry Hazlitt
Under a government which imprisons injustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- — H.D. Thoreau
Things run in this country in spite of the government, not because of it.
- — Will Rogers
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d’etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man’s innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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