The power to tax is the power to destroy. – John Marshall
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Bastiat
The plans differ; the planners are all alike… – Frédéric Bastiat
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – John Locke
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
Edmund Burke
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey