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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

That government is best which governs least.

I was disappointed to see that some of the so-called crypto exchanges, not all of them but some of them, are refusing to end transactions with Russia – you know, from some I don’t know, philosophy of libertarianism or whatever.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

It’s no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government … Unfortunately … that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives … Today, it is the government that is free – free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter … that is not subject to legislation.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

You can’t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad – in fact, to do anything it wants.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

To change masters is not to be free.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Given man’s nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.