"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people." - Thomas Paine

"No political ritual can alter morality. No election can make an evil act into a good act. If it is bad for you to do something, then it is bad for those in "government" to do it." - Larken Rose

"Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place." - Noam Chomsky

"Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence." - Jim Babka

"Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you." - Paul Williams

"Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager." - John Taylor Gatto

"Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution." - Walter E. Williams

"The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? 100%." - Joseph Sobran

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

"The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped." - Edward Snowden

"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities." - Robert Nozick

"For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to." - Albert J. Nock

"The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air." - Ludwig von Mises

"Every socialist is a disguised dictator." - Ludwig von Mises

"More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?" - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war." - Pope Pius XII

"Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property." - Frédéric Bastiat

"Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce." - Jeffrey Tucker