Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frederic Bastiat
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
Frederic Bastiat
That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman
“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.” – John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand