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Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms—spelling it out as it is—as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a "surplus," this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when "deficits" are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.
- — Deficit disorders, by Ilana Mercer
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
- — Frederich Nietzsche
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
- — Erasmus
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
- — Thomas Paine
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
- — Daniel Webster
The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
Oikeus ei ole mitä joku sinulle antaa, vaan jotain jota sinulta ei voi riistää.
- —Ramsey Clark
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
- — Adam Smith
That government is best which governs least, because the people govern themselves.
- — Thomas Jefferson
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