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If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

— Adam Smith



The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke



There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.

— Robert Nozick



A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw



Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

— Lord Acton



What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

— George Henry



Totalitarismi on pakotettava hallitsemaan väkivallalla, koska tällöin se paljastaa itsensä. Jos se onnistuu hallitsemaan pelkällä pelolla, väärinajattelijoita yhden kerrallaan vaientamalla, ihmiset luulevat elävänsä vapaudessa ja yhteiskuntaamme riivaava syöpä saa kasvaa rauhassa.

— Jussi Halla-aho



By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.

— Frédéric Bastiat



Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

— Thomas Jefferson



The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises