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We believe in God and the Mauser
– Boer saying circa 1895
Money can’t buy you friends, but it can buy you a better class of enemy
– Spike Milligan
Typically, one attacks beliefs as ‘simple’ when it isn’t feasible to attack them as ‘wrong’.
– Glenn Reynolds
The Sex Pistols are as English as the Malvern Hills
-Patrick Crozier
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
– Lord Acton
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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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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