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The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.
- — Henry Hazlitt
Today, little is left of this ethic of private property and its anti-government vigilance. Although they now take place on a much grander scale, governmental appropriations of private property owners are overwhelmingly regarded as legitimate. There is no longer a general public opinion that regards government as an antisocial institution based on coercion and unjust property acquisitions, to be opposed and ridiculed everywhere and at all times on principled grounds.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
- — George Orwell, in "1984"
Business is a means—the only means—to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it.
- — Cullen Hightower
Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society's economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.
- — Ludwig von Mises
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- — H.D. Thoreau
"Solve" and "Problems" are not in the constitution.
- — Doug Newman
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- — Milton Friedman
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
- — Thomas Jefferson
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