“You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.” - Noam Chomsky

“When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.” - David R. Henderson

“There has never been a government that didn’t sooner or later try to reduce the freedom of its subjects and gain more control over them, and there probably will never be one. Therefore, instead of trying to convince our current government not to try, we’ll develop the technology that will make it impossible for the government to succeed.” - Wei Dai

“He who makes no secret of himself excites anger in others.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false.” - H. L. Mencken

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage - the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.” - Ayn Rand

“Slaves believe what their masters say. Propaganda falsely informs a slave citizenry. You believe anything authoritative.” - John McAfee

“Bitcoin is a peaceful protest against the financial system that has failed us.” - Jimmy Song

“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.” - Linus Torvalds

“The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” - Ronald Reagan

“Statism always degenerates into totalitarianism.” - Darrell Anderson

“We don't need to turn back the clock. We only have to turn away from government — from the idea that we can cure social problems with a gun, from the fairy-tale belief that government can be made to work for anyone but the politicians. Coercion will never be as effective as freedom and cooperation. Government doesn't work. It is time to stop trying to fix it, and start finding ways to live with as little of it as possible.” - Harry Browne

“The insurance company has a strong motivation to make no promise it can't keep, and to keep every promise it makes. The police have no such motivation, since they are usually immune from any prosecution for failing to protect you. Thus you can't rely on the police (or any other government agency) to protect you.” - Harry Browne

“Something you formerly loved as a truth or a probability now strikes you as an error; you cast it off and believe your reason has made a victory. But maybe that error was as necessary for you then, when you were still another person – you are always another person – as are all your present ‘truths’, like a skin that concealed and covered many things you weren’t allowed to see yet.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Someone who does not know how to find the path to his ideal lives more carelessly and impudently than someone without an ideal.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation. In our case, it is CPU time and electricity that is expended.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful, or who is the harmful speaker? Or to determine in advance what are the harmful consequences going to be that we know enough about in advance to prevent? To whom would you give this job?” - Christopher Hitchens

“Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.” - Paul Buchheit

“Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself - and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you scratch any cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist.” - George Carlin