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The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall



Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.

— Harold Lowman



As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

— Oscar Wilde



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

— Thomas Jefferson



Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...

— Ludwig von Mises



Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

— Karl Popper



The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson



A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

— Ramsey Clark



To be a liberal is to have realized that a special privilege conceded to a small group to the disadvantage of others cannot, in the long run, be preserved without a fight (civil war): but that, on the other hand, one cannot bestow privileges on the majority, since these then cancel one another out in their value for those whom they are supposed to specially favor, and the only net result is a reduction in the productivity of social labor.

— Ludwig von Mises