Succinct, pithy, memorable, true:
"Blaming financial crises on greed is like blaming airplane crashes on gravity."
- Author uncertain
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
- Author uncertain
"The state is that great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
- Frederic Bastiat
"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
- Frederic Bastiat
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Frederic Bastiat
"There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur, but the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got."
- Ludwig von Mises
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
- Lysander Spooner
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
- Milton Friedman
"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one."
- Robert LeFevre
"Just because some people cannot be trusted with liberty does not mean that other people can or should be trusted with power."
- Sheldon Richman
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