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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

— Henry Hazlitt



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



Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

— Robert Nozick



No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson



To change masters is not to be free.

— Jose Marti y Perez



Common sense is not so common.

— Voltaire



When you look into all this bizarre activity of the European Union with its 80,000 pages of regulations it looks like Gosplan. We used to have an organisation which was planning everything in the economy, to the last nut and bolt, five years in advance. Exactly the same thing is happening in the EU.

— Vladimir Bukovsky



Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

— Seneca



Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier.

— Margaret Thatcher



An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson