Frederic Bastiat

"The state is that fictitious entity by which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else."

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Milton Friedman

"Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself.... Economic freedom is also an indespensable means toward the achievement of political freedom."

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Ayn Rand

"Any alleged right of one person which necessitates the violation of the rights of another is not, and can never be a right.” ."

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H.L. Mencken

The theory behind representative government is that superior men--or at all events, men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity--are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honesty. There is little support for that theory in the known facts...

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Ludwig von Mises

"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."

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Robert Green Ingersoll

"Without Liberty, the brain is a dungeon."

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Oliver W. Holmes

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

from 21st Century Dictionary of Quotations.