“If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way.” - Richard Stallman

“Which came first - The lies our government tells us, Or the lies we tell ourselves?” - John McAfee

“The absence of a police state is that people are free, and if you don't commit crimes you can do what you want. But today, you can't open up a business, you can't develop land, you can't go to the bank, you can't go to the doctor without the government knowing what you're doing. They talk about medical privacy, that's gone. Financial privacy, that's gone. The right to own property, that's essentially gone. So you have to get permission from the government for almost everything. And if that is the definition of a police state, that you can't do anything unless the government gives you permission, we're well on our way. This is something that people eventually, I hope, will get sick and tired of, and say enough is enough.” - Ron Paul

“I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.” - Paul Graham

“If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down - unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.” - Milton Friedman

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky

“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh

“What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” - Aldous Huxley

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” - Bertrand Russell

“As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.” - David Brin

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis

“Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust.” - Linus Torvalds

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” - Milton Friedman

“Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.” - David D. Boaz

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” - Calvin Coolidge

“If a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him?” - L. Neil Smith

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“If people are saying, look, we gotta ban Bitcoin because it's somewhat anonymous and anonymous transactions can occur, or because it's possible for criminals to use it, all of those arguments can be used to say, just ban dollars.” - Jared Polis