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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
- — F.A. Hayek
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- — Karl Popper
By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
- — Mark Twain
Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it’s worst, an intolerable one.
- — Thomas Paine
A little girl in a school in USSR was asked to use "communist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat just had a litter of kittens and they are all communists."
A month later the same little girl was asked to use the word "capitalist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat had a litter of kittens and now they are capitalists."
The teacher was shocked and ask what had happened to the kittens. The little girl responded, "Well they have opened their eyes now!"
The more freedom, the less violence. Conversely, the more power at the center, the more violence. In short: power kills.
- — R.J. Rummel
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- — Walter Bagehot
Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
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