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“What makes one heroic? Going out to meet at the same time one’s highest suffering and one’s highest hope.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.” - Ayn Rand
“If everyone abandoned “legal tender” for gold and goods in contracts and other exchanges, it is doubtful that even taxation could sustain the modern State.” - Samuel Edward Konkin III
“If government is small, then you don't need the income tax.” - Ron Paul
“The Boston Anarchists are opposed to mob rule. For this reason they are opposed to the State, whose rule is nothing less than mob rule, since all arbitrary rule which is enforced by brutal agencies is mob rule. The State, then, is the chief of mobbists.” - Henry Appleton
“From out of themselves they must overcome themselves again and again.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Satoshi gave birth to a wonderful new form of money – it is our job to raise it and let it grow to its full potential.” - Dennis Reimann
“Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” - Frédéric Bastiat
“The part of these immigration bills that I hate most is the requirement for new forms of identification and surveillance of US citizens. I gather this is supported by nearly everyone in Congress. Orwellian surveillance is not controversial in the US, where 'Land of the Free' has been replaced with 'Let me see your papers.'” - Richard Stallman
“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
“‘This – is now my way: where is yours?’ Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way’. For the way – does not exist!” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the propaganda system to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling or unwitting instruments.” - Noam Chomsky
“Silk Road was founded on libertarian principles and continues to be operated on them. It is a great idea and a great practical system.” - Ross Ulbricht
“Guess how many excuses that banks will make up to try to have bitcoin banned?” - Rick Falkvinge
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” - Aldous Huxley
“There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“In the end, politics won't fix our future. The technology that created the cyber threats on our horizon is based on fact. Politics is not.” - John McAfee
“Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free.” - Voltairine de Cleyre