"Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." - Ayn Rand
"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder." - Fredric Bastiat
"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?" - Andrew Ford
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." Alexis de Tocqueville
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder." - Fredric Bastiat
"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?" - Andrew Ford
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." Alexis de Tocqueville
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way." - Milton Friedman
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Only the government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." - Milton Friedman
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Nikita Krushchev
"How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality alone cannot be the talisman of moral people." - Walter Williams
"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." - Thomas Sowell
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Only the government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." - Milton Friedman
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Nikita Krushchev
"How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality alone cannot be the talisman of moral people." - Walter Williams
"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." - Thomas Sowell
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