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The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage
– Thucydides, Pericles’ funeral oration
…the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Congress is now discussing ethics of business. This is the first time for many congressmen – not business, but ethics.
– Jay Leno
To end corruption in high places, don’t try to end corruption, end high places
– from Matthew Edgar’s blog, source unknown
Liberties depend on the silence of the law
– Hobbes (Leviathan)
Like all self respecting cabals of sinister globalist illuminati, we have a motley widespread and close-knit network of voyeurs spies reporting back to us with prurient valuable information… one of them has managed to get a snapshot of a well known bellicose blogger. We need assistance positively identifying her however.

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The Scottish Parliament has just done what unfettered democratic institutions do: make the prejudices of the majority into laws backed by violence to suppress minority view points. They have now banned fox hunting in Scotland, refusing even to compensate the people who will lose their livelihoods as a result. On the later point I am actually glad as the immoral viscousness of this statist intrusion is made all the more stark to see.
Until people start to respond in kind and impose a physical cost on such actions by the state, and on supporters of such actions, it is unlikely much will change. Given the complete lack of viable political opposition to the socialist Labour and National Socialist SNP in Scotland, it is horrifying that only Sinn Fein, a grotesque organisation whose objectives are antithetical to liberty, provides the only viable model for friends of liberty who wish to oppose the increasingly repressive intrusions of the state.
I hope that if evil days should come upon our own country, and the last army which a collapsing Empire could interpose between London and the invader were dissolving in rout and ruin, that there would be some, even in these modern days, who would not care to accustom themselves to a new order of things and tamely survive the disaster.
– Winston S. Churchill
Peace!
Stay off my back
Or I will attack
And you don’t want that!
– Snap (from I’ve got the Power)
…and Snap really was the lyrical Jessie James.
Turning to Communism for fear of Fascism is like suicide for fear of death
– Perry de Havilland
Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxes, no loan guarantees, and, for Heaven’s sake, no bailouts of foreign banks and governments.
– Lew Rockwell
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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