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Murray N. Rothbard

"Paine not only laid bare the roots of monarchy, but provided a brilliant insight into the nature and origins of the State itself."

John T. Flynn

"The commonly accepted theory that Fascism originated in the conspiracy of the great industrialists to capture the state will not hold. It originated on the Left."

Bruce Ramsey

Garrett wanted his government to mind its own business. This is because he wanted Americans to be able to mind their own business without being taxed, conscripted, or killed in other people's causes. 

Peter Richards

Lilburne's courageous campaigns for liberty resulted in his spending much of his life in prisons.

Gary Galles

The fact that Social Security's generational highjacking is politically well established doesn't make it ethical. We send private Ponzi scheme organizers to prison for good reason.

Faustino Ballvé

Socialism arose as an international working-class movement, but the nationalist has met more success: "Proletarians of all countries, don't come to my country and take my job away from me!"

Larry J. Sechrest

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires of freedom in people's minds."

Murray N. Rothbard

In their aggressions against neighbors the Spanish and English established the policies to be applied to alien peoples through conquest or extermination. 

Thomas Paine

The safety and prosperity of the individual and of the whole depends on the principles of society and civilization, something deeper than any government.

Murray N. Rothbard

"If recovery is to be maintained and future progress assured, there must be a more or less complete reversal of contemporary tendencies of governmental regulation of enterprise."