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The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate "given" resources -- if "given" is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these "data." It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.
- — F.A. Hayek
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
- — Thomas Jefferson
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- — John Marshall
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
- — F.A. Hayek
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
- — V.I. Lenin.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- — Francis Bacon
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- — Thomas Jefferson
Politics, from the Greek "poly", meaning many, and "ticks", small, annoying bloodsuckers.
- — Dave Barry
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.
- — Henry Hazlitt
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