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If goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

— Frédéric Bastiat



Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

— Karl Popper



Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

— Thomas Jefferson



It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.

— Murray Rothbard



Ei ole olemassa mitään niin pahaa, etteivät poliitikot voisi pahentaa sitä.

— Thomas Sowell



Social cooperation under the division of labor is the ultimate and sole source of man's success in his struggle for survival and his endeavors to improve as much as possible the material conditions of his well-being. But as human nature is, society cannot exist if there is no provision for preventing unruly people from actions incompatible with community life.

— Ludwig von Mises



[...] he won’t believe us, since you can’t make his favorite omelet without breaking heads.

— An anonymous anarcho-capitalist on a collectivist



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin



The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises



I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

— Professor Bernardo de la Paz, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlien