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When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

— Thomas Paine



Anarchy—it’s not the law, it’s just a good idea.



We have become accustomed to the idea that a natural system like the human body or an ecosystem regulates itself. To explain the regulation, we look for feedback loops rather than a central planning and directing body. But somehow our intuitions about self-regulation without central direction do not carry over to the artificial systems of human society.

— Herbert Simon



Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state.

— William F. Rickenbacker



No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

— Thomas Jefferson



All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self-justifying—a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

— Edward Abbey



Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

— Mikhail Bakunin



There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

— Milton Friedman



See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

— Dave Barry



All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right, and not what is established.

— Aristotle