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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- — Voltaire
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
- — Mahatma Gandhi
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
- — Barry Goldwater
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
- — Edward R. Murrow
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
It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.
- — Murray Rothbard
Inflation has been irresistibly attractive to sovereigns because it is a hidden tax that at first appears painless or even pleasant... It is truly taxation without representation.
- — Milton Friedman
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
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
- — Marcus Cicero
To be a liberal is to have realized that a special privilege conceded to a small group to the disadvantage of others cannot, in the long run, be preserved without a fight (civil war): but that, on the other hand, one cannot bestow privileges on the majority, since these then cancel one another out in their value for those whom they are supposed to specially favor, and the only net result is a reduction in the productivity of social labor.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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