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I do not have a weight problem, I have a height problem
– A certain redoubtable lawyer who is a regular Samizdata.net contributor

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
– Frédéric Bastiat

I am an autodidact economist; that is, I am self-taught. If I see far it is because I am standing on the feet of giants.
– The Angry Economist

To initiate terrorism is to justify your very own apocalypse, many more Arabs and Chechens are going to die than Americans, Europeans and Russians, because our ability to carry out terrorism is greater than theirs.
– Dalmaster

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
– John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
– John Stuart Mill