“Most of the governments of the world today are, as they have been throughout history, of a totalitarian (statist) variety to varying degrees. These governments have gone by a variety of names: fascist, communist, socialist. They are totalitarian to the extent that the state governs the individual’s life; the more sectors of life in the hands of the government (and correspondingly, the less left to the individual liberty), the more totalitarian or statist that government is.” - John Hospers

“If Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.” - George Washington

“If an individual is required to give up his own happiness for society, of what value is society to him?” - Harry Browne

“For one person, solitude is the escape of an invalid; for another, solitude is escape from the invalids.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.” - Milton Friedman

“Insofar as the individual is seeking happiness, one ought not to tender him any prescriptions as to the path to happiness: for individual happiness springs from one's own unknown laws, and prescriptions from without can only obstruct and hinder it.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us finally consider what naivety it is in general to say ‘man should be such and such!’ Reality shows us a delightful abundance of types, the richness that comes from an extravagant play and alternation of forms.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.” - Cypherpunk Manifesto

“Trump has no penis. That's why he is so angry all the time.” - John McAfee

“It is easy to understand why people viewed the gold standard as the symbol of this greatest and most beneficial of all historical changes.” - Ludwig von Mises

“There is no right or wrong, just fun and boring.” - Hackers

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” - Benjamin Franklin

“‘Punishment’ is what revenge calls itself: it feigns a good conscience for itself with a lie.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” - George Orwell

“Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.” - Clint Eastwood

“No one believes in the stupidities of clever people: what a loss of human rights!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.” - Aesop

“If you do the maths on 21 million in the supply of Bitcoin, the market cap of gold, let us say it is $10 trillion, maybe it is $11 trillion, somewhere in that ballpark, that puts one Bitcoin – if it disrupts gold, and gets that market cap – at $500,000.” - Tyler Winklevoss

“While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problems it purports to solve - namely, providing a form of money that is under the full command of its owner and likely to hold its value in the long run - are as old as human society itself.” - Saifedean Ammous

“Bitcoin is a peaceful protest against the financial system that has failed us.” - Jimmy Song