/lrg/ QUOTELIST

/lrg/ QUOTELIST

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat
"Libertarians must be radical and uncompromising conservatives" - Hans Hermann-Hoppe
"The state is the ultimate nigger because it puts a gun to your head and acts like it dindu nuffin" - (Murray Rothbard) :^)
"Those who would give up liberty, to purchase a little safety, deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads" - Ron Paul
"One finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom" - Alexis de Tocqueville
"The state is an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers, and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes, and useful idiots — an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches" - Hans Hermann-Hoppe
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry" - Thomas Jefferson
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance" - (Murray Rothbard)
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Benjamin Franklin
"Man recoils from trouble - from suffering; and yet he is condemned by nature to the suffering of privation, if he does not take the trouble to work. He has to choose, then, between these two evils. What means can he adopt to avoid both? There remains now, and there will remain, only one way, which is, to enjoy the labor of others. Such a course of conduct prevents the trouble and the satisfaction from preserving their natural proportion, and causes all the trouble to become the lot of one set of persons, and all the satisfaction that of another. This is the origin of slavery and of plunder, whatever its form may be - whether that of wars, imposition, violence, restrictions, frauds, &c. - monstrous abuses, but consistent with the thought which has given them birth. Oppression should be detested and resisted - it can hardly be called absurd" - Frederic Bastiat
"No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe