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Great Moments in Capitalist History: on this day in 1964 the world’s largest cheese (34,591 lbs) was manufactured in Wisconsin
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
– P. J. O’Rourke
Here’s something to ponder: just as there are boobs on the far-left, there are also boobs on the far-right. You know, they do come in pairs.
– unknown
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
– John Lehman, former US Secretary of the Navy
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with
– Marty Feldman
Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
– Ayn Rand
The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.
– Robert A. Heinlein on censorship
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right
– Winston S. Churchill
I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them
– Winston S. Churchill, on the occasion of lunch with Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered
– Winston S. Churchill
“Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.”
Edmund Burke was born 273 years ago today.
What’s the difference between pornography and art? A government grant
– Unknown
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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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