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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- — Walter Bagehot
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- — Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Social cooperation under the division of labor is the ultimate and sole source of man's success in his struggle for survival and his endeavors to improve as much as possible the material conditions of his well-being. But as human nature is, society cannot exist if there is no provision for preventing unruly people from actions incompatible with community life.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- — Isaac Asimov
The state provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property.
- — Murray Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.
- — Murray Rothbard
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
- — F.A. Hayek
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
- — Ludwig von Mises
We have become accustomed to the idea that a natural system like the human body or an ecosystem regulates itself. To explain the regulation, we look for feedback loops rather than a central planning and directing body. But somehow our intuitions about self-regulation without central direction do not carry over to the artificial systems of human society.
- — Herbert Simon
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- — Edward Langley
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