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For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

— Peter Bauer



The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall



The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.

— Edmund Burke



Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

— Nikita Khrushchev



Reason teaches all mankind that no one ought to harm another in his life, liberty, or possessions.

— John Locke



Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society's economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.

— Ludwig von Mises



The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe



I’d rather have my country die for me.

— James Joyce



Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.

— Hans F. Sennholz



I don’t care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

— Boss Tweed