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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- — Oscar Wilde
I cannot convince myself that there is anyone so wise, so universally comprehensive in his judgment, that he can be trusted with the power to tell others: "You shall not express yourself thus, you shall not describe your own experiences; or depict the fantasies which your mind has created; or laugh at what others set up as respectable; or question old beliefs; or contradict the dogmas of the church, of our society, our economic systems, and our political orthodoxy."
- — Jake Zeitlin
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
- — Jacob Hornberger
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else’s expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
- — F.A.Hayek
No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
- — George D. Herron
That government is best which governs not at all.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[...] a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles [...] is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
- — Benjamin Franklin
A good government is one "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned."
- — Thomas Jefferson, in his inaugural address
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
- — Ayn Rand
[...] he won’t believe us, since you can’t make his favorite omelet without breaking heads.
- — An anonymous anarcho-capitalist on a collectivist
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