These are some of the quotes I've collected
during my love affair with the free market.
Imagine a world...
in which the principle of private ownership of the means of production is fully realized,
in which there are no institutions hindering the mobility of capital, labor, and commodities,
in which the laws, the courts, and the administrative officers do not discriminate against
any individual or groups of individuals whether native or alien. Imagine a state of affairs in
which governments are devoted exclusively to the task of protecting the individual's
life, health, and property against violent and fraudulent aggression. In such a world the
frontiers are drawn on the maps, but they do not hinder anybody from the pursuit of what
he
thinks will make him more prosperous. No individual is interested in the expansion
of the size of his nation's territory, as he cannot derive any gain from such an aggrandizement.
Conquest does not pay and war becomes obsolete.
-
Ludwig von Mises
Away with the whims of governmental administrators,
their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs,
their government schools, their state religions, their free credit,
their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions,
their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!
- Frederick Bastiat
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than
the kind
which the market economy brings about.
- Ludwig von Mises
Fairy tales are more than true.
Not because they tell us that dragons exist,
but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Ben Franklin
The living is not perfect because it is liable to change;
the dead is not perfect because it does not live.
- Ludwig von Mises
The price of liberty is, and always has been, blood.
The person who is not willing to die for his liberty
has already lost it to the first scoundrel
who is willing to risk dying to violate that person’s liberty.
Are you free?
- Andrew Ford
I do not take a single newspaper...
and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Not all those who wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
There are no evil thoughts
– except one –
the refusal to think.
- Ayn Rand
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is,
has left the path of wisdom.
- Mithrandir
One should die proudly,
when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
- F. Nietzsche
Be free always, because of all things,
freedom is best, though it is not easily won
and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.
- Alice Borchardt
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