The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. … - Murray Rothbard

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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Murray Rothbard

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation. ' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft. '

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The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

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The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

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