Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?” ― Walter E. Williams
“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.” - Bastiat
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation...” - Rothbard
"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong" - Bastiat
"It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
― Bastiat
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Bastiat
1/Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.
“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.” Frédéric Bastiat
