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Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find—nothing.
- — Aesop
Moreover, insurance companies promote the development of another "security feature." States have not just disarmed their citizens by taking away their weapons, democratic states in particular have also done so in stripping their citizens of the right to exclusion and by promoting instead – through various non-discrimination, affirmative action, and multiculturalist policies – forced integration. In a natural order, the right to exclusion inherent in the very idea of private property is restored to private property owners.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d’etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man’s innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Under a government which imprisons injustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- — H.D. Thoreau
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- — Isaac Asimov
The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
I cannot convince myself that there is anyone so wise, so universally comprehensive in his judgment, that he can be trusted with the power to tell others: "You shall not express yourself thus, you shall not describe your own experiences; or depict the fantasies which your mind has created; or laugh at what others set up as respectable; or question old beliefs; or contradict the dogmas of the church, of our society, our economic systems, and our political orthodoxy."
- — Jake Zeitlin
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy," and the other, "tyranny."
- — Karl Popper
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- — Aldous Huxley
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