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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
- — Murray Rothbard
[...] a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles [...] is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
- — Benjamin Franklin
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
Common sense is not so common.
- — Voltaire
Most of these amazing intrusions into personal liberty have occurred over the past 90 years, since the introduction of the income tax. They have been accepted by a population helpless to challenge the endless expansions of State power – and yet, even though most citizens have received endless pro-State propaganda in government schools, a growing rebellion is brewing. State predations are now so intrusive that they have effectively arrested the forward momentum of society, which now hangs before a fall.
- — Stefan Molyneux
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an "inconvenience". We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
- — Frank Zappa
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
- — Alexis de Tocqueville
The net effect of Clarence Darrow’s great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
- — H. L. Mencken
Mayor: "At any rate, you have a bad habit of taking your own course. And that, in a well-ordered community is almost as bad. The individual must subordinate himself to society, or more precisely, to the authorities whose business it is to watch over the welfare of society."
Dr. Stockmann: "Maybe. But what the devil has that to do with me?"
- — Henry Ibsen, in "An Enemy of the People"
The selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of government.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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