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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
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
- — Milton Friedman
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- — Winston Churchill
Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.
- — Henry Hazlitt
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society's economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.
- — Ludwig von Mises
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
- — Ludwig von Mises
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- — Edmund Burke
The more power a government has [...] the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.
- — R.J. Rummel
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
- — Adam Smith
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