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An economy breathes through its tax loopholes.
- — Barry Bracewell-Milnes
A pessimist asked God for relief.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
"No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them."
"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something—the mortality of the optimist."
- — Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil’s Dictionary", 1911
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- — R. Buckminster Fuller
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
- — Herbert Spencer
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
The more freedom, the less violence. Conversely, the more power at the center, the more violence. In short: power kills.
- — R.J. Rummel
I’d rather have my country die for me.
- — James Joyce
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
One cannot say, by any stretch of the imagination, that the homesteaders, the producers, and the contractors who must surrender part of their assets to a government have demanded such a service. Instead, they must be coerced into accepting it, and this is conclusive proof of the fact that the service is not actually in demand at all. Hence, demand cannot be considered as a limit on the size of government. Insofar as it grows, the state grows by acting in open contradiction to demand.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- — Edward Abbey
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