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Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.
- — Lord Acton
The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B", "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
- — H.L. Mencken
Every class is unfit to govern.
- — Lord Acton
When the fox administers justice, the chickens will always be found guilty.
- — Cat Farmer
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
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- — Thomas Jefferson
When buying and selling are controlled by legistation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy," and the other, "tyranny."
- — Karl Popper
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- — Alexis de Tocqueville
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