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The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate "given" resources -- if "given" is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these "data." It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.

— F.A. Hayek



No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson



If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.

— P.J. O’Rourke



It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin



I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

— Will Rogers



It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

— Murray Rothbard



War is the health of the state.

— Randolph Bourne



The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

— Isaiah Berlin



I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

— Malcolm Forbes



If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.

— Kelvin Throop