“Whether it is the growth of the new schools of economics in America or England or the appearance of the so-called new philosophers in France, there is one unifying thread running through the intellectual work of these groups — rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate, the realization that collectivism stifles all the best human impulses.” - Ronald Reagan

“Many a one cannot deliver himself from his own chains and yet he is his friend’s deliverer.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Experience teaches only the teachable.” - Aldous Huxley

“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.” - H. L. Mencken

“I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.” - Voltairine de Cleyre

“Why would anyone pay for followers? They would not be real followers. Like paying for pussy and not getting to touch it.” - John McAfee

“One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.” - Harry Browne

“The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.” - H.L. Mencken

“For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.” - Augustine of Hippo

“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” - Hunter S Thompson

“For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.” - Jacob G. Hornberger

“The monetary competition between easy government money and hard gold will likely result in one winner in the long‐run. Even in a world of government money, governments have not been able to decree gold's monetary role away, as their actions speak louder than their words.” - Saifedean Ammous

“You average joe pot dealer, who wouldn't hurt a fly, that guy became my hero. By making his living outside the purview of the state, he was depriving it of his precious life force, the product of his efforts. He was free. People like him, little by little, weakened the state and strengthened the market.” - Ross Ulbricht

“A leader leads by example not by force.” - Sun Tzu

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” - Albert Einstein

“Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.” - Julian Assange

“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