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One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Market interventions will inevitably cause more of the problems they are supposed to cure, which leads to more and more controls and regulations until we finally reach full-blown socialism. If the current trend continues, it can safely be predicted that the democratic welfare state of the West will eventually collapse as did the "people's republics" of the East in the late 1980s. For decades, real incomes in the West have stagnated or even fallen. Government debt and the cost of the "social insurance" schemes have brought on the prospect of an economic meltdown. At the same time, social conflict has risen to dangerous heights.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
- — William Penn
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Aggression is simply another name for government.
- — Benjamin Tucker
The three stages of government: If it works, tax it. If it still works, regulate it. If it stops working, subsidize it.
- — Ronald Reagan
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- — Thomas Jefferson
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- — Edward Abbey
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
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