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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

— Immanuel Kant



What luck for rulers that men do not think.

— Adolf Hitler



All Governments, including the worst on earth and the most tyrannical on earth, are free Governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

— Lysander Spooner



Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state.

— William F. Rickenbacker



[...] if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

— F.A. Hayek



What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

— George Henry



Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.

— Adam Smith



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



The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

— Max Stirner



By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.

— Frédéric Bastiat