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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- — John Marshall
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
- — Isaiah Berlin
Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- — Lord Acton
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The Bill of Rights goes too far—it should have stopped at "Congress shall make no law".
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- — John Locke
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be [...] controlled in everything.
- — F.A. Hayek
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever that means.
- — Vladimir Bukovsky
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.
- — Robert Nozick
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