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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata slogan of the day

We believe in God and the Mauser
– Boer saying circa 1895

Samizdata slogan of the day

Money can’t buy you friends, but it can buy you a better class of enemy
– Spike Milligan

Samizdata slogan of the day

Typically, one attacks beliefs as ‘simple’ when it isn’t feasible to attack them as ‘wrong’.
Glenn Reynolds

Samizdata slogan of the day

The Sex Pistols are as English as the Malvern Hills
-Patrick Crozier

Samizdata slogan of the day

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
– Lord Acton

Samizdata slogan of the day

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage
– Thucydides, Pericles’ funeral oration

Samizdata slogan of the day

…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

Samizdata slogan of the day

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
– Thomas Jefferson

Samizdata slogan of the day

Congress is now discussing ethics of business. This is the first time for many congressmen – not business, but ethics.
– Jay Leno

Samizdata slogan of the day

To end corruption in high places, don’t try to end corruption, end high places
– from Matthew Edgar’s blog, source unknown

Samizdata slogan of the day

Liberties depend on the silence of the law
– Hobbes (Leviathan)

Sinister Samizdata spies secure secret snap

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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