♦ nivek ♦ Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 "Government cannot make man richer,but it can make him poorer." -- Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/L...ises.Quote.835E "Do we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ... as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?" -- Sergei Hoff former Montana Deputy Sheriff Source: 'Our Fears and Denials Will Enslave Us' by Sergei Hoff, October 23, 2004 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/S...Hoff.Quote.A90F "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848. Source: "The State", Journal des débats, issue of September 25, 1848 (in Selected Essays on Political Economy) par. 5.20 http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss5 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/F...tiat.Quote.8733 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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