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Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d’etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man’s innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- — Euripides
Both Oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.
- — Aristotle
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- — Karl Popper
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
- — Barry Goldwater
The process of social selection that determines each individual's position and income is continuously going on in the market economy. Great fortunes are shrinking and finally melting away completely while other people, born in poverty, ascend to eminent positions and considerable incomes. Where there are no privileges and where governments do not grant protection to vested interests threatened by the superior efficiency of newcomers, those who have acquired wealth in the past are forceed to acquire it every day anew in competition with all other people.
- — Ludwig von Mises
If this be treason, then let us make the most of it.
- — Patrick Henry
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
- — Will Rogers
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self-justifying—a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
- — Edward Abbey
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