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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
- — Murray Rothbard
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
- — Ludwig von Mises
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
- — F.A. Hayek
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
- — Milton Friedman
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
- — Mary McCarthy
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
If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
- — Milton Friedman
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
- — Thomas Jefferson
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- — Honore de Balzac
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.
- — Ramsey Clark
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