“Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bitcoin isn’t competing for resources. Resources are competing for Bitcoin.” - Obi-Wan Kenobit
“I shall never serve any government anywhere.” - Leo Tolstoy
“If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd.” - John McAfee
“Arguing whether technical developments are good or bad is a quite pointless endeavor. One might as well discuss whether it’s good or bad that blueberries grow in the forest. At the end of the day, they won’t care but keep on growing anyway.” - Rick Falkvinge
“The power to define reality is the most abused power of the media. Period. End of tweet.” - John McAfee
“In order to see much one must learn to look away from oneself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.” - Milton Friedman
“The Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.” - Linus Torvalds
“When someone asks for a government program, he is saying in effect: Tell the police to use their guns to get me what I want.” - Harry Browne
“If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it.” - Richard Stallman
“The talent of many a man appears less than it is because he has always set himself too great tasks.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” - Milton Friedman
“As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime (1789–94) was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West. It is also reminder that mass democracy and inflation go together, as surely as thunder and lightning. Let us revisit the Revolution, from a free-market, hard-money perspective.” - Scott Trask
“Statism is the Utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society.” - Keith Hamburger
“Human maturity: this means rediscovering the seriousness we had towards play when we were children.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” - Bertrand Russell
“It’s as silly to blame social media for causing fake news as it would be to blame the internal combustion engine for causing road rage... The mass-market tabloid press fomented the Spanish-American War on dubious pretexts in 1898, and from this point on, powerful media corporations, driven to boost profits by fanning the resentments of people.” - Jim Sleeper
“A power has arisen up in the Government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.” - John C. Calhoun