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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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I wouldn’t recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me.
– Hunter S. Thompson
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules, and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
– Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, September 13, 2001
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.
– Edward Gibbon
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
– Sam Brown
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule
– H.L. Mencken
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury
– Sir Alex Fraser Tytler
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
– Cicero
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a blog.
-What Cicero would have said if he was alive today
Vini Vedi Visa
(I came I saw I shopped)
Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.
– from Hope by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
– Edward R. Murrow
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
– Thomas Paine
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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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