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“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”

Thomas Paine

“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”

Sam Levenson

“I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.”

Edward Snowden

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”

H. L. Mencken

“Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.”

Walter E. Williams

“The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent.”

Joseph Sobran

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.”

Harry Browne

“People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.”

Ron Paul

“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.”

Ramsey Clark

“Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.”

Thomas DiLorenzo

“Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.”

Donald Boudreaux

“No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”

Herbert Hoover

“The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.”

Friedrich Hayek

“With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.”

Ron Paul

“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.”

James Madison

“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.”

John Locke

“The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Governments need armies to protect them from their enslaved and oppressed subjects.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.”

G. Edward Griffin

“A caged canary is safe but not free.”

Walter E. Williams

“Love your country but fear its government.”

Daniel Webster

“The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.”

Cornelius Tacitus

“The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.”

Max Stirner

“That government is best which governs least.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”

H.L. Mencken

“Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”

H. L. Mencken

“Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”

Edward Snowden

“Liberty should be understood as freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.”

George Reisman

“Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.”

Stefan Molyneux

“All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.”

Murray Rothbard

“The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.”

John Taylor Gatto

“Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.”

Pat Buchanan

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”

John Locke

“The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.”

Ludwig von Mises

Guest Post by Simon Black

Last week I decided to use my tax savings to pay the rent for US government workers affected by the shut down. Emails keep coming in from furloughed federal employees having a tough time. And money keeps going out.

As I’ve been highlighting over the past week, the government shutdown affects many more people than the 800,000 furloughed government workers. Some contractors and subcontractors might not even know their salary ultimately stems from government funding.

So it’s really millions who aren’t receiving a paycheck.

Continue reading “Man bills the US government for his Corvette. This is how they responded…”

Guest Post by Simon Black

Every week we send out an alert to our premium subscribers highlighting important news that often goes overlooked…

We scour through recent court cases, laws moving through congress, whispers in the government and various, international news sites to find the latest things happening that could infringe upon your freedom… or that just make us laugh and cringe due to the never-ending stupidity of governments around the world.

If we had to pick one, dominant trend for 2018, it would be the rise of the “snowflake.”

Continue reading “The SIX dumbest and most absurd stories of 2018”