β€œThere are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices.” - Noam Chomsky
β€œA great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.” - Woodrow Wilson
β€œIt is impractical for anyone to develop wealth in government money without government acceptance. Government can confiscate money from the banking monopolies it controls, inflate the currency to devalue holders' wealth and reward it to the most loyal of its subjects, impose draconian taxes and punish those who avoid them, and even confiscate bills.” - Saifedean Ammous
β€œOne day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.” - Giorgio Agamben
β€œFreedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo
β€œBeing open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.” - Satoshi Nakamoto
β€œMany individuals in government don't seem to understand the laws of economics. ... They often brag at news conferences that their interception of drugs between producer and consumer has raised the 'street value' of the drugs, meaning that the drugs are now scarcer than they were. What these statists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge is that this only increases the market incentive to cash in on those higher prices by making up for the artificial scarcity.” - L. Neil Smith
β€œIn a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” - Walter Lippmann
β€œWhere the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.” - Noam Chomsky
β€œOnce you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.” - L. Neil Smith