“The best public servant is the worst one. A thoroughly first-rate man in public service is corrosive. He eats holes in our liberties. The better he is and the longer he stays the greater the danger.” - Homer Ferguson
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“Modern liberalism, however well intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.” - Ron Paul
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” - Ayn Rand
“Liberty is not a pill that makes men angels. What it does do is limit the extent to which evil can be expressed in the world.” - Ross Ulbricht
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” - Winston Churchill
“It cannot be said too often — at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough — that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.” - George Orwell
“The most painful feeling there is, is to discover that one is always taken for something higher than one is. For one is then obliged to admit to oneself: something in you is lies and deception, your words, the impression you make, your glance, your actions.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The State is all about taxation: a monopoly over violence that is funded by the compulsory collection of revenues. Who receives what portion of these revenues, and who pays what portion, are the continuing twin themes of politics down through the ages.” - Gary North
“The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment – anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion – and that is one of its greatest strengths.” - Sara Sheridan
“With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
“In this sense, it’s more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
“Amidst a sea of rent-seeking 'cryptocurrencies' created by opportunistic venture capitalists, bitcoin stands alone as neutral, immutable money with rules, but no single ruler.” - Nik Bhatia and Joe Consorti
“Live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.” - Winston Churchill
“The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place.” - Bob Dole
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” - Bertrand Russell
“Every person is unique, and their human rights are more important than any lofty goal, any mission, or any program. An individual's rights ARE the goal, ARE the mission, ARE the program.” - Ross Ulbricht
“That you feel something to be right - may be due to the fact that you have never thought much about yourself and simply have accepted blindly that what you had been told ever since your childhood was right.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Government will always find a reason and a way to print more money, expanding government power while reducing the wealth of the currency holders.” - Saifedean Ammous
“The state wants to be absolutely the most important beast on earth; and it is believed to be so, too!” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” - Heinrich Heine