Quotes of the Week

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
 – Milton Friedman

Government, in its last analysis, is organized force.
– Woodrow Wilson

If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one. 
– Robert LeFevre

It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.
– Murray N. Rothbard

A government debt is a government claim against private property – an unpaid tax bill.
– Hans F. Sennholz

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."
– Harry Browne

"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity." 
--Theodore Roosevelt