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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

— Baruch Spinoza



Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

— Albert Einstein



When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

— Otto von Bismarck



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



They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people’s money.

— Margaret Thatcher



We will never have a true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

— Will Rogers



Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

— Mikhail Bakunin



Common sense is not so common.

— Voltaire



If goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

— Frédéric Bastiat



When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

— Thomas Paine