"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets." - Lysander Spooner
"The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard." - Ludwig Von Mises
"A healthy civilization is held together by the things we jointly love; an unhealthy civilization by things we fear." - Paul Rosenberg
"I'm for a flat tax -- as long as the flat rate is zero. The object is to get rid of big government, not find a new way of financing it." - Harry Browne
"Power rests on nothing other than people's consent to submit." - Vladimir Bukovsky
"Face piles and piles of trials with smiles. It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave... Keep on thinking free." - Moody Blues, "In The Beginning"
RIP John Lodge!
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"When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world. " - Frederick Douglass
"When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will." - Brock Pierce
"When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. " - Gary Lloyd
"It will be a great day when taxpayers can keep all the money they earn, and professional sports teams have to hold bake sales to finance stadium construction." - Doug Newman
"Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward permanently and globally." - @LynAlden
"Any group, organizing around people they hold as vile enemies – a process that automatically dehumanizes those people into hated objects – will eventually spawn murder."
- Paul Rosenberg
https://open.substack.com/pub/thefindings/p/organizing-around-objects-of-hate
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"When it comes to unfairness, most people care less about financial inequality and more about the fact that the game is rigged." - Aleks Svetski
"Those who understand human programmability program themselves; those who do not will be programmed by others." - Robert Breedlove
Humanity stands about halfway between gorillas and gods. The great question that looms over us, is this: “Which will we incorporate into our lives? Primate things or God things?” - Paul Rosenberg