“Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.” - Alan Dershowitz
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“I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
“Hack the Planet!” - Hackers
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” - Sigmund Freud
“Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” - Ayn Rand
“No victor believes in chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Gun-control laws don't inhibit criminals, who rarely buy their guns in stores. But the laws do prevent you from defending yourself.” - Harry Browne
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” - Winston Churchill
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson
“We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.” - L. Neil Smith
“It is not civilised to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.” - Gertrude Stein
“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky
“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, if you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.” - Bertolt Brecht
“And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone.” - Robert LeFevre
“Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.” - Linus Torvalds
“If SHA-256 became completely broken, I think we could come to some agreement about what the honest block chain was before the trouble started, lock that in and continue from there with a new hash function.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.” - Linus Torvalds
“Right now, drugs are ours. They aren't tainted by the government. We the people control their manufacture, distribution and consumption.” - Ross Ulbricht
“That a theory is refutable is, frankly, not the least of its charms: this is precisely how it attracts the more refined intellects.” - Friedrich Nietzsche