 Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. 
Eric Hoffer
It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of a special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of the Marxist mythology of class warfare, refuted by half a century of factual evidence. All men are victims and losers under a dictatorship; nobody wins-except the ruling clique.
Ayn Rand
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
Milton Friedman
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
And death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die.
John Donne
Death, Be Not Proud
Just as a man who will eat anything so long as and only if it is green will fail to differentiate lettuce from poison ivy, so will the traditionalist fail to separate good from evil.
G. Stolyarov II
Hazing, Collectivism, and Traditionalism
The great power of the project is that it's absolutely irrational. And that disturbs, angers the sound human perception of a capitalist society. That is also a part of the project, this is the idea of the project, to put in doubt all the values.
Christo
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/goldblatt200404080824.asp
A lot of [opponents of genetic engineering] think there's something sacred about natural changes. Mother Nature doesn't know what she's doing. That's why kids are born with terrible diseases.
Professor Lee Silver
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa
To understand via the heart is not to understand.
Michel de Montaigne
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Ludwig von Mises
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
One way to keep products out of this country is to levy high tariffs upon them. Another way– and just as effective– would be for warships of another country to blockade our ports. The former is declared to be something that is 'nationalistic,' while no doubt we would see the other as an act of naked aggression. Yet, there is no difference between the two when it comes to examining their results.
William Anderson
Tariffs are Sanctions: http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?record=350&month=15
…all restrictive measures are fundamentally expenditures. They diminish the supply of productive means available for the supply of other goods.
Ludwig von Mises
http://www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=95&sortorder=issue
The first step which led from the soldiers' war back to total war was the introduction of compulsory military service.... The war was no longer to be only a matter of mercenaries--it was to include everyone who had the necessary physical ability.... But when it is realized that a part of the able-bodied must be used on the industrial front...then there is no reason to differentiate in compulsory service between the able-bodied and the physically unfit. Compulsory military service thus leads to compulsory labor service of all citizens who are able to work, male and female.
Ludwig von Mises
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
The U.S. government once claimed... subsidies as necessary because other countries employ them. That's like saying: 'foreign governments are punishing their people to reward their special interests; we should copy them.'
Llewelyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Foreign Trade Follies
… I will say that it’s a good thing that the buggy whip manufacturers never formed a politically powerful coalition or else we would today still have a thriving, government-subsidized buggy whip industry. (Think of all the additional jobs!)
Jeff Landauer
$190 Billion of Evil
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder. With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice.
Claude Frederic Bastiat
The Law
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
The Nature of Government
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Charles Darwin
I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry Mayer, All On Fire p. 120
On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.
Walter Williams
The justest dispositions possible in ourselves, will not secure us against it [war]. It would be necessary that all other nations were just also. Justice indeed, on our part, will save us from those wars which would have been produced by a contrary disposition. But how can we prevent those produced by the wrongs of other nations? By putting ourselves in a condition to punish them. Weakness provokes insult and injury, while a condition to punish often prevents them.
Thomas Jefferson
A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
Ayn Rand
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.
Thomas Sowell
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
1814
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert A. Heinlein
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas B. Reed
1885
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
Edmund Burke
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.
Gary Lloyd
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
John Marshall
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Tytler
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