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==[[Bill Niskanen]]== | ==[[Bill Niskanen]]== | ||
''We will oppose contemporary liberals when they fail to distinguish between a virtue and a requirement. We will oppose contemporary conservatives when they fail to distinguish between a sin and a crime.'' | ''We will oppose contemporary liberals when they fail to distinguish between a virtue and a requirement. We will oppose contemporary conservatives when they fail to distinguish between a sin and a crime.'' | ||
==[[John Gilmore]]== | |||
''Never give a government power you would not want a despot to have. Anything else is wishful thinking.'' | |||
==[[Karl Hess]]== | ==[[Karl Hess]]== | ||
Revision as of 07:49, 12 November 2018
Bill Niskanen
We will oppose contemporary liberals when they fail to distinguish between a virtue and a requirement. We will oppose contemporary conservatives when they fail to distinguish between a sin and a crime.
John Gilmore
Never give a government power you would not want a despot to have. Anything else is wishful thinking.
Karl Hess
The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.
Marshall Fritz
I don't own anything that belongs to Caesar [1]
Mary McCarthy
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Murray Rothbard
The fundamental axiom of libertarian theory is that no one may threaten or commit violence (‘aggress’) against another man’s person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.
Starchild
A black market is the part of a free market that refuses to knuckle under to government oppression.
No doubt you’ve heard the phrase ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of that phrase – Being ignorant of a law is no excuse for breaking it. But you may not be aware of the libertarian meaning of the phrase – This is an ignorant law and there’s no excuse for it!