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Market interventions will inevitably cause more of the problems they are supposed to cure, which leads to more and more controls and regulations until we finally reach full-blown socialism. If the current trend continues, it can safely be predicted that the democratic welfare state of the West will eventually collapse as did the "people's republics" of the East in the late 1980s. For decades, real incomes in the West have stagnated or even fallen. Government debt and the cost of the "social insurance" schemes have brought on the prospect of an economic meltdown. At the same time, social conflict has risen to dangerous heights.
- — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
We are reduced to the alternative of choosing unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
- — Continental Congress on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in 1775
Totalitarismi on pakotettava hallitsemaan väkivallalla, koska tällöin se paljastaa itsensä. Jos se onnistuu hallitsemaan pelkällä pelolla, väärinajattelijoita yhden kerrallaan vaientamalla, ihmiset luulevat elävänsä vapaudessa ja yhteiskuntaamme riivaava syöpä saa kasvaa rauhassa.
- — Jussi Halla-aho
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- — Walter Bagehot
A good deed in the wrong place is like an evil deed.
- — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense [...] that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
- — Alan Greenspan
If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.
- — Kelvin Throop
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
- — 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.
By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
- — Frédéric Bastiat
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