“Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives.” - Peter Gelderloos

“Proof-of-work has the nice property that it can be relayed through untrusted middlemen. We don't have to worry about a chain of custody of communication. It doesn't matter who tells you a longest chain, the proof-of-work speaks for itself.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Statism is the Utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society.” - Keith Hamburger

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are essentially better than all the other causes in the world and refuse to believe that, if their cause is to prosper at all, it requires precisely the same evil-smelling manure as all other human undertakings have need of.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.” - Linus Torvalds

“[The cloud is] stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.” - Richard Stallman

“The political policies that are called conservative these days would appal any genuine conservative.” - Noam Chomsky

“In the near future, the government having a monopoly on money will seem as strange as the government having a monopoly on religion or language.” - Conner Brown

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.” - Charles Macklin

“Will we reshape the landscape of society as we know it? What if one day we had enough power to maintain a physical presence on the globe, where we shunned the parasites and upheld the rule of law, where the right to privacy and property was unquestioned and enshrined in the very structure of society. Where police are our servants and protectors beholden to their customers, the people. Where pace our leaders earn their power and responsibility in the harsh and unforgiving furnace of the free market and not from behind a gun, where the opportunities to create and enjoy wealth are as boundless as one's imagination.” - Ross Ulbricht

“Reinventing government isn't the answer; we need to disinvent it. And you can't make an agency of coercion user friendly; a gun is still a gun — even if the triggerman smiles, calls you 'sir' or 'ma'am,' and lets you fill out a sheet evaluating his performance.” - Harry Browne

“There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.” - Ron Paul

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual — and his rights — as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.” - L. Neil Smith

“Freedom is more often lost by false assumptions than by the power of one's enemies.” - Harry Browne

“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought.” - Anthony Kennedy

“Bitcoin is wealth insurance.” - ODELL

“Bitcoin endures because the engineers that build it expect the unexpected. Money is a dangerous game, and any weaknesses, no matter how small, will be exploited.” - Neil Woodfine

“During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche