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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
- — Marcus Cicero
It is no accident that the European Parliament, for example, reminds me of the Supreme Soviet. It looks like the Supreme Soviet because it was designed like it. Similary, when you look at the European Commission it looks like the Politburo. I mean it does so exactly, except for the fact that the Commission now has 25 members and the Politburo usually had 13 or 15 members.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
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
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- — Oscar Wilde
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- — G.K. Chesterton
A society that puts equality [...] ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- — Milton Friedman
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
- — Thomas Sowell
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- — Walter Bagehot
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
- — Will Rogers
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
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