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. -Rothbard<\/p>\n
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. - Gandhi<\/p>\n
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. -Gandhi<\/p>\n
One of the great mistakes is to judge (government) policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. - Milton Friedman<\/p>\n
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. - Bastiat<\/p>\n
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. - Bastiat<\/p>\n
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. - Basitat<\/p>\n
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone. - Bastiat<\/p>\n
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. - von Mises<\/p>\n
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