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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth  Alan Greenspan
  
  
• Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely  Lord Acton
  
  
• Ideas have Consequences  Richard Weaver
  
  
• In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy  Justice Brandeis
  
  
• Democracy is a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses  H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil  Friederick Hayek
  
  
• Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one  Thomas Paine
  
  
• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session  Mark Twain
  
  
• It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office  H. L. Mencken
  
  
• The State is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else  Frederic Bastiat
  
  
• There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers  Richard Feynman
  
  
• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts  Will Rogers
  
  
• Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt  Herbert Hoover
  
  
• Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works  John Stuart Mill
  
  
• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people  Wendell Phillips
  
  
• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under  H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.  Albert J. Nock
  
  
• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.  Albert J. Nock
  
  
• It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.  Albert J. Nock
  
  
• Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.  Shakespeare
  
  
• Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class  Albert J. Nock
  
  
• All socialism involves slavery.  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• Government is essentially immoral  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.  Herbert Spencer
  
  
• Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Governments never learn. Only people learn.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Inflation is taxation without legislation.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• The power to do good is also the power to do harm.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.  Milton Friedman
  
  
• Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• In economics, the majority is always wrong.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  
• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  
  

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