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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- — Winston Churchill
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
- — F.A. Hayek
Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
- — Mikhail Bakunin
That government is best which governs not at all.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can acquire property either through homesteading, production, and contracting, or else through the expropriation and exploitation of homesteaders, producers, or contractors. There are no other ways.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else’s expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
- — F.A.Hayek
Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it.
- — Cullen Hightower
Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- — Lord Acton
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self-justifying—a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
- — Edward Abbey
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
- — Patrick Henry
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