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From the Great Depression to the Cold War, to the War on Terror, the regime repeatedly seeks to keep its citizens in a state of fear. And there's one "enemy" that is always there for the state to save us from: "greed" and capitalism. 

Antony G. N. Flew

The expression "social justice" does appear to be employed by a great many people as almost synonymous with the word "equality. " But if equality is the same thing as social justice, then social justice can't be justice at all. 

Ludwig von Mises

Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government payroll. If elected officials no longer consider themselves servants of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, doles, and subsidies, democracy is done for.

Murray N. Rothbard

If today they come for the smoker, tomorrow they will come for you. Neo-Prohibitionism has been long on the march.

Ludwig von Mises

Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government payroll. If elected officials no longer consider themselves servants of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, doles, and subsidies, democracy is done for.

Robert Higgs

By keeping the population in a state of artificially heightened apprehension, the government-cum-media prepares the ground for planting specific measures of taxation, regulation, surveillance, reporting, and other invasions of the people's wealth, privacy, and freedoms.