“Bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.” - Tacitus

“The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Although the shrewdest judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchery, this guilt nevertheless did not exist. This applies to all guilt.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The types of collection in [1984] - microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us - are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.” - Edward Snowden

“Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?” - Ronald Reagan

“Libertarianism holds out, not the goal of a perfect society, but of a better and freer one. It promises a world in which more of the decisions will be made in the right way by the right person: you.” - Bill Weld

“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” - John Maynard Keynes

“Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.” - Alan Dershowitz

“He who lives as children live — who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance — remains childlike.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hope more and more people stop asking for permission. Just build what they want.” - Jack Dorsey

“I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government.” - Benjamin Harvey Hill

“Often we attack and make an enemy in order to conceal that we are vulnerable to attack.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.” - Lysander Spooner

“I do as I please, as all free people do. It brings youth back into your life.” - John McAfee

“To make a bank, was a great plot of state; invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.” - Andrew Marvell

“Sound money is an essential requirement for individual freedom from despotism and repression, as the ability of a coercive state to create money can give it undue power over its subjects, power which by its very nature will attract the least worthy, and most immoral, to take its reins.” - Saifedean Ammous

“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