“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo

“Being open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Many individuals in government don't seem to understand the laws of economics. ... They often brag at news conferences that their interception of drugs between producer and consumer has raised the 'street value' of the drugs, meaning that the drugs are now scarcer than they were. What these statists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge is that this only increases the market incentive to cash in on those higher prices by making up for the artificial scarcity.” - L. Neil Smith

“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” - Walter Lippmann

“Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.” - Noam Chomsky

“Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.” - L. Neil Smith

“The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiate can do with it.” - Henry Ford

“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently.” - Kim Neunert

“I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. That's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build, and it's not something I'm willing to live under.” - Edward Snowden

“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” - L. Neil Smith

“Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL

“[Bitcoin's] mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.” - Nassim Taleb

“Money should work like email. At the end of the day, it is information. It is simply an entry in a ledger, and why does it not work that way? It is because the money that we are used to predates the internet, was built by bankers, not technologists. Bitcoin is really the first money purpose-built for the internet.” - Tyler Winklevoss

“Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it.” - Robert J. Samuelson

“Taxes are an evil - a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.” - Winston Churchill

“Herein lies the value of free speech. It makes concealment difficult, and, in the long run, impossible. One heretic, if he is right, is as good as a host. He is bound to win in the long run. It is thus no wonder that foes of the enlightenment always begin their proceedings by trying to deny free speech to their opponents. It is dangerous to them and they know it. So they have at it by accusing these opponents of all sorts of grave crimes and misdemeanors, most of them clearly absurd - in other words, by calling them names and trying to scare them.” - H. L. Mencken

“I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no; respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don't get it. It's really that simple.” - Linus Torvalds

“The more loathsome people that use bitcoin, the better. The more it works even if teeming with people that mutually despise each other, the more faith I have in its ability to protect us all.” - Nic Carter

“Hugs not drugs.... no wait, hugs AND drugs!” - Ross Ulbricht

“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